I need a SIMPLE random file include script - any ideas???

[JetJagger]

I need a script that will allow me to include random 'php includes' in my site, but I am having trouble finding one that works as advertised.

 

The script simply need to allow me to create add various 'php includes' to an array, then I need another string of code that can be inserted into my Web page to pull-in the 'php includes' in the array.  For example:

 

ARRAY FILE (Loosely-based on reality)...

 

 

(arrayfile.php)

[1] <?php include('http://whateverfilefromanywhere01.php'); ?>

[2] <?php include('http://whateverfilefromanywhere02.php'); ?>

[3] <?php include('http://whateverfilefromanywhere03.php'); ?>

 

 

THEN THE INCLUDE THAT GOES INTO THE WEB PAGE....

 

(embedded inside Web page)

<?php include('http://arrayfilepath.php"); ?>

 

 

That's it!  Keep in mind, I DO NOT need a 'random image' script.  There are hundreds of those.  What I need is a script that INCLUDES whatever objects or content found in the 'php include' files in the array.  These might be images, text, or HTML strings.

 

I don't know why this script is so hard to locate on the Web!

 

Help.

 

 

[wildteen88]

Do something like

 

$files = array('file1.php', 'file2.php'. 'file3.php');

// randomly include a file
include $files[rand(0, count($files)-1)];

[rhodesa]

or with array_rand

$files = array('file1.php', 'file2.php'. 'file3.php');

// randomly include a file
include $files[array_rand($files)];

[wildteen88]

or with array_rand

Doh! I always forget about that function

[dropfaith]

http://socoder.net/index.php?snippet=57  kinda an interesting link regarding this id prob use the method's already mentioned tho

[CroNiX]

or with array_rand

$files = array('file1.php', 'file2.php'. 'file3.php');

// randomly include a file
include $files[array_rand($files)];

 

Except for the . instead of the , in the array

[redarrow]

<?php

$a=array("http://www.google.co.uk","http://www.msn.co.uk","http://www.yahoo.co.uk");

shuffle($a);

echo file_get_contents("$a[0]");

?>

[JetJagger]

STATUS:

 

Okay, they all worked, and I actually found many of those scripts online already.  My problem was that I was trying to separate-out the 'echo' or 'array include' portion of the script (so that the file path portion was a stand-alone file).  Well, I didn't need to do that since I could just include the whole dang script with a basic include string.

 

DUH!  DUH!  DUH!

 

Anyway...  Thanks to all for such quick responses to this embarrassingly simply question.

 

Three hours wasted on 'trying to hard'.  LOL.