Re: Randomiser

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Reese wrote:
Andrew Barnett wrote:
I ended up using an example from the PHP website.

<?php
$input = array("Neo", "Morpheus", "Trinity", "Cypher", "Tank");
$rand_keys = array_rand($input, 2);
echo $input[$rand_keys[0]] . "\n";
echo $input[$rand_keys[1]] . "\n";
?>

Just extended the array to the number of lines I needed.

That works, but shuffle() is cleaner and then you can echo things
out with a foreach() expression.

http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.shuffle.php

If you're doing a shuffle inside a loop, it's going to be even slower. Might not be an issue for the OP but after your array gets to a certain size, doing that will be a problem.

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