[SOLVED] select a random file from a folder

[blufish]

I want to know how to select a random file from a folder like http://www.frozenoven.com/jokes/ is this possible? do I need a list of all the files in the folder? If I need the list how do you do it?

 

Thanks in advance! 

[ratcateme]

use the code from this http://php.net/manual/en/function.readdir.php to read the dir into a array then use shuffle() and take the first one on the array as your random file.

 

Scott.

[blufish]

I looked at it it seems a little difficult,

 

if I used

while (false !== ($file = readdir($handle))) {
        echo "$file\n";
    }

Would it print out a list of all the files in the directory?

 

[PFMaBiSmAd]

Actually the glob() function will get a list of files directly into an array for you, that you could then process as ratcateme mentioned.

[Lodius2000]

try

 

$file = glob(handle);

shuffle($file);

echo $file[0];

[cooldude832]

maybe u should look into  a databse if you are using flat files to store single "jokes" as u call it.

 

Or even a modified flat file database.