seems to me that you have an array with integers as the keys.
$desired_key = rand(0, count($array));
$desired_value =
$array[$desired_key];
Cheers,
Curtis
Simon J Welsh wrote:
> 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
>
> Just note that array_rand()
returns a random (or an array of random)
> key(s), not the
values.
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