Select a video file randomly from a url.

[kona77]

Hello Ladies and Gentleman,

I am working on a project from an idea that I have and I am in WAY over my head when it comes to any type of code, etc. If there is a step by step then I can do it, but for this type of project I searched the forums and I definitely need a second opinion.

Here is what I need, when someone clicks on a link in my app they will be taken to a url with a video. What is need is something that will grab a random video from a folder on my server with 20 videos. I don't want the same video to play every time someone goes to the url. I know that they will eventually get the same video if they return enough.

I have my sites hosted at hostrocket if that helps any.

Thank you in advance for any help or suggestions.

Newbie

 

PS This is how much I need help, the verification was 'In TCP/IP, the IP is short for Internet". I had to actually look that up. ROFL. Thanks All

[Adam]

You just need to read the contents of the directory containing the videos into an array (glob will make that easy), and use array_rand to randomly select one item from the array. You may want to later cache such a listing if this will be used heavily, but for now just concentrate on reading the contents using glob.

 

PS This is how much I need help, the verification was 'In TCP/IP, the IP is short for Internet". I had to actually look that up. ROFL. Thanks All

 

TCP/IP actually stands for "Transmission Control Protocol / Internet Protocol"