Automatically set the latest AsciiArtFarts.com art to your MOTD!

README.md

So you want that super clever and funny AsciiArtFarts.com humor on your terminal's Message of the Day? Here's how!

STEP 1.

First put asciiartfarts-motd.php somewhere where you know where it is:

mv asciiartfarts-motd.php /Users/sam/bin/

STEP 2.

Modify your crontab ("crontab -e" on command line) to include something like this:

# motd
0 * * * * php /Users/sam/bin/asciiartfarts-motd.php > /etc/motd.tail 2>/dev/null

STEP 3.

Laugh your ass off on the regular

Brought to you by @LoisaidaSam

(I am in no way affiliated with asciiartfarts.com nor does its content represent my opinion on anything)

asciiartfarts-motd.php

<?php

try {
        $xml = new SimpleXMLElement('http://www.asciiartfarts.com/farts.rss', NULL, TRUE);

        $title = $xml->channel[0]->item[0]->title;
        $link = $xml->channel[0]->item[0]->link;
        $ascii = $xml->channel[0]->item[0]->description;

        $ascii = html_entity_decode(str_replace(array('<pre>', '</pre>'), array('', ''), $ascii)) . "\n\n";

        $daily_ascii = "\n{$title}\n{$link}\n\n{$ascii}";

        echo $daily_ascii;
}
catch (Exception $e) {
        echo "";
}