Re: pick a card, any card...

On 9/04/2011, at 3:39 PM, Scotty Logan wrote: > 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 - °: > ðò¤W7"ÏƆhttp://php.net/manual/en/function.array-rand.php > > Scotty Just note that array_rand() returns a random (or an array of random) key(s), not the values. --- Simon Welsh Admin of http://simon.geek.nz/ Who said Microsoft never created a bug-free program? The blue screen never, ever crashes! http://www.thinkgeek.com/brain/gimme.cgi?wid=81d520e5e