Hi,

Here’s a script which randomly selects a value from an array:

<?php
function selectRandomValueFromArray($array, $range = '')
{
srand((float) microtime() * 10000000);

if(empty($range))
{
$last_key = count($array) - 1;
$range = array(0, $last_key);
}

$rand_array = rand($range[0], $range[1]);

$result = $array[$rand_array];

return $result;
}

$array = array('apple', 'pine', 'pear', 'strawberry', 'cherries', 'mango', 'grape', 'watermelon', 'papaya');

/*
1st argument: array
2nd argument (optional): the array range (2 values) of the keys
*/

echo selectRandomValueFromArray($array); // select random value from all

echo "<br />";

echo selectRandomValueFromArray($array, array(0, 3)); // select random value from  the first 4 values of the array

echo "<br />";

echo selectRandomValueFromArray($array, array(2, 5)); // select random value between the 3rd and the 6th value of the array
?>

NOTE The array starts from 0. If you need, for instance, to set a range from the 2nd to the 5th value of the array then you should use the following argument: array(1, 4).

The advantage of this function, compared to array_rand() is that it can randomly select values from a specified range.

Good luck!

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