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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