Re: random messages ...how?
| From: | Robin Vickery | Date: | Tue, 12 Sep 2000 09:00:39 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: random messages ...how? | ||
| References: | 1 | Groups: | php.general |
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webmaster@RetrieverSports.net ("Larry Linthicum") writes:
> I have a script that retrieves the users first name from the database and
> prints a greeting "Hi, $name, welcome back
>
> I'd like to make it a little more interesting by randomly printing one of
> several greetings and, of course, including the users name
<?php
srand ((double) microtime() * 1000000);
$greetings = array( "Hi, @@NAME@@, welcome back",
"Wotcha @@NAME@@!",
"Hiyah @@NAME@@"
);
$name = "Uncle Bulgaria";
print ereg_replace( "@@NAME@@", $name, $greetings[rand(0, sizeof($greetings) - 1 )] );
?>
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