Which is more resource attentive however (Random question, not necessarily
pertaining to this)?
Making MySQL do extra work or PHP do some extra work?
- k
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From: "King, Justin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Rasmus Lerdorf" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Friday, September 07, 2001 4:19 PM
Subject: RE: [PHP] randomly picking a variable from an array
But that would make sense rasmus... and I don't like to make sense =)...
if its an array filled from a database, randomizing on the database
level would still be better though.
--Justin King, School District of Superior Web Coordinator
(www.superior.k12.wi.us)
-----Original Message-----
From: Rasmus Lerdorf [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, September 07, 2001 3:13 PM
To: King, Justin
Cc: Joseph Bannon; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: [PHP] randomly picking a variable from an array
I'd say the easiest way would be to use array_rand()
See http://php.net/array_rand
-Rasmus
On Fri, 7 Sep 2001, King, Justin wrote:
> The easiest way I can think of would be to get a random number based
on
> the size of an array. If you're querying your database and filling an
> array with all images, just use the database's random routine instead.
> (I.E. "SELECT quote,author from randomQuote ORDER by RAND() LIMIT 1"
in
> mysql)
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> If this isn't the case, something like this should work..
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> srand(time());
> $random=rand(0,sizeof($myVar)-1);
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> Hope I could be of some help...
>
> --Justin King, School District of Superior Web Coordinator
> (www.superior.k12.wi.us)
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> Sent: Friday, September 07, 2001 2:08 PM
> To: PHP (E-mail)
> Subject: [PHP] randomly picking a variable from an array
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> How do you randomly picking a variable from an array with PHP?
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