RE: [PHP] randomly picking a variable from an array
| From: | Sterling Hughes | Date: | Fri, 07 Sep 2001 20:24:45 +0000 |
| Subject: | RE: [PHP] randomly picking a variable from an array | ||
| References: | 1 | Groups: | php.general |
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On Fri, 7 Sep 2001, King, Justin wrote:
> The easiest way I can think of would be to get a random number based on
> the size of an array. If you're querying your database and filling an
> array with all images, just use the database's random routine instead.
> (I.E. "SELECT quote,author from randomQuote ORDER by RAND() LIMIT 1" in
> mysql)
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> If this isn't the case, something like this should work..
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> srand(time());
> $random=rand(0,sizeof($myVar)-1);
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> Hope I could be of some help...
>
array_rand() will also do this for you...
-Sterling
> --Justin King, School District of Superior Web Coordinator
> (www.superior.k12.wi.us)
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Joseph Bannon [mailto:JBannon@advparadigm.com]
> Sent: Friday, September 07, 2001 2:08 PM
> To: PHP (E-mail)
> Subject: [PHP] randomly picking a variable from an array
>
> How do you randomly picking a variable from an array with PHP?
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> Thanks,
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> Joseph
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