I am having a bit of a problem, I have a search box on my php site which has an intial value set like so:

<input name="skey" type="text" value= "Magician" size="20" maxlength="64" onFocus="clearText(this)">

So this would search for magicians (obviously).

But I want to have the initial random 'value' so every time a user comes on the site they have a random seach they could perform, clown, singer etc.. for example
I have tried using php and a bit of java but nothing seems to work? Anybody know which direction I should be going to get this working?

You probably want something like this

PHP Code:

<?php

$quotes[] = "Magician";
$quotes[] = "Singer";
$quotes[] = "quote 3";
$quotes[] = "quote 4";
$quotes[] = "quote 5";
$quotes[] = "quote 6";

srand ((double) microtime() * 1000000);
$randomquote = rand(0,count($quotes)-1);

echo "<input name=\"skey\" type=\"text\" value=\"$quotes[$randomquote]\" size=\"20\" maxlength=\"64\" onFocus=\"clearText(this)\">";

?>

Borrowed the code off of a website