hi, i'm trying to use the array_rand() to return one of six images, culled from a directory listing. however, i've noticed that over the past five days, the log of images accessed is anything but a random distribution:
20 /jnl/images/banner/banner_viola.jpg
32 /jnl/images/banner/bw_banner.jpg
35 /jnl/images/banner/alyssa_banner.jpg
104 /jnl/images/banner/coffee_banner.jpg
147 /jnl/images/banner/banner_bracelets.jpg
193 /jnl/images/banner/orange_wig_banner.jpg
i'd like to see the others pop up a bit more -- like, ever. i'm
seeding the random method with srand, even though i'm running php
4.3.3 and shouldn't need to. i tried the shuffle() method like was
suggested on the manual page for the array_rand() method, but can't
make it work -- it returns an array of the indices(!).
(am i doing this right? it would just be
shuffle($banners);
, right?)
is there a common workaroud for this problem? what do other people do
for more randomized random array selections?
thanks,
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