How do you display random messages

[slyte33]

Can anyone please tell me how I could randomly pick out messages to display?

I remember seeing somewhere in a PHP guide you can use an array, but how?

 

All help appreciated, thanks

 

 

[Alex]

You can use array_rand. Ex:

 

$messages = Array('Message 1', 'Message 2', 'Message 3');
echo $messages[array_rand($messages)];

[slyte33]

Thank you very much

[premiso]

If you are pulling data from a database, you can use rand() in the order by.

 

SELECT message FROM messages ORDER BY rand() LIMIT 5

 

That will pull 5 random messages from the database.