Re: pick a card, any card...

On Apr 8, 2011, at 8:20 PM, Kirk Bailey wrote: > in otherwords, the entire idea of picking one of N objects, whatever they are- strings, > numbers, gummybears, lined up in a listing, and return the one item selected. This seems a common > enough function there should be a simple way to do it already in php. HOWEVER, I ain't > findin' it that way, no sir/maam/other. > Maybe I am missing the obvious SIMPLE way to get the job done. So if we have a listing of > foo's, we can title this $listing, and we want 1 of them to be returned, we should see > something like: > randmember($listing) array_rand() - it's already built-in - http://php.net/manual/en/function.array-rand.php Scotty