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The Seventh Hokage

Aug 29 2009, 04:43 PM

the best way i have come up with is like so...

CODE

$result=rand(0,9);
$description[0]="hi";
$description[1]="hiya";
/*description filled with random stuff. so on until 10 entries are made*/
switch($result)
{
case 0:
echo $description[0];
break;
//and so on
}

is there a more simple,less code laden way to do this?

Shadow Link

Aug 29 2009, 09:52 PM

I don't think you need a switch/case for every result. Wouldn't this work?

CODE

echo $description[$result];

Aug 31 2009, 02:11 AM

http://php.net/array-rand holds your answer.

NDBoost

Sep 4 2009, 01:36 PM

QUOTE(Ed @ Aug 31 2009, 02:11 AM)

http://php.net/array-rand holds your answer.

Yes array-rand is correct.

CODE

<?php
$rand[0] = 'bg';
$rand[1] = 'bg2';
$rand[2] = 'bg3';
$rand[3] = 'bg4';
$rand_keys = array_rand($rand, 4);

echo $rand[$rand_keys[0]];

?>

this is an example from my drupal theme on doing a random value from an array using array_rand();

The Seventh Hokage

Sep 4 2009, 08:07 PM

thanks. it took me a while to find this post again . i appreciate the help. i need to bookmark php.net too... lol

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