Forums Scripts & Popups need some help

I havent written a script in a very long time and completely forget how to do it.

What i want to do is have a script that makes that whenever someone types "!topic" a random topic(word) is generated and posted in the channel. if anyone could help that would be wonderful

Put a topic.txt plain text file with one topic per line into mIRC root directory and it will be accessible through help text files menu.

I would use the 'n' switch with $read so it doesn't try to evaluate dollars ($) or variables (%) in the text.

if i remember right it goes in remote right?

Maybe he wants to evaluate them as in "welcome to $chan today we are discussing how rarely people actually create random topic files that would create a problem"

Well that's up to him, he has both versions now!

it goes in the remote section right?

i tried in remote and user and it doesnt work

Yes it goes in the remotes section
The code also requires the client that is running the code to have full ops in the channel.
Also, as it uses an ON TEXT event, you cannot initiate the code from the client on which it is installed.

Also make sure that the text file is named correctly and is in the correct directory. You can find out which directory it's supposed to be in by typing //echo -a $mircdir

More precisely, on text event can be triggered with the same client, either from the same connexion if it let you trigger in query, or simply with another connexion