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 - > http://php.net/manual/en/function.array-rand.php > > Scotty
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