random input
6 posts by 2 authors in: Forums > CMS Builder
Last Post: November 4, 2011 (RSS)
By Toledoh - November 2, 2011
I have a loop that goes
<?php foreach ($productsRecords as $record): ?>
<a href="#" class="random">Link here</a>
<?php endforeach ?>with the class="random", I want a random item to appear from a list of items "red,blue,green" etc
I can hard code the list, or create the list in cmsb...
Tim (toledoh.com.au)
Re: [Toledoh] random input
By Toledoh - November 3, 2011
<?php $input = array("blue", "green", "red", "yellow"); $rand_keys = array_rand($input, 2); echo $input[$rand_keys[0]] . "\n"; ?>Tim (toledoh.com.au)
Re: [Toledoh] random input
By Toledoh - November 3, 2011
This code doesn't seem to be working as well as I thought.
<?php $input = array("blue", "green", "red", "yellow"); $rand_keys = array_rand($input, 2); echo $input[$rand_keys[0]] . "\n"; ?>">It seems that I'm not returning any "yellows" and some "red"... any thoughts on why?
Tim (toledoh.com.au)
Re: [Toledoh] random input
By Dave - November 4, 2011
Try this example:
foreach (range(1,100) as $count) {
$allValues = array("blue", "green", "red", "yellow");
$randomValue = $allValues[ array_rand($allValues,1) ];
echo "$randomValue<br/>\n";
}Let me know if that works better for you.
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Re: [Dave] random input
By Toledoh - November 4, 2011
<?php foreach (range(1,1) as $count) {
$allValues = array("blue", "green", "orange", "yellow");
$randomValue = $allValues[ array_rand($allValues,1) ];
echo "$randomValue\n";
} ?>">I changed the range to (1,1) and removed the <br />
Thanks Dave!
Tim (toledoh.com.au)
Re: [Toledoh] random input
By Dave - November 4, 2011
Glad it's working! You can actually trim the code down a bit more, I just had the foreach loop in there to show multiple values. Here's an even shorter version:
<?php
$allValues = array("blue", "green", "orange", "yellow");
$randomValue = $allValues[ array_rand($allValues,1) ];
echo "$randomValue\n";
?>Cheers!
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