What's the best way to randomly select a single variable from two variables?

[imgrooot]

Say I have two variables like below. I basically want to select one of them, but through random choice. How do I do that?

$orange = 'Orange';
$apple = 'Apple';

 

[requinix]

Use mt_rand() to generate a random number.

[NotionCommotion]

To expand on requinix's response:

$options = ['Orange', 'Apple', 'Pear'];
$select=mt_rand(0,2);
$selected=$options[$select];

 

[chhorn]

or just 

array_rand([$orange, $apple]);

 

[Psycho]

On 4/15/2019 at 8:24 AM, chhorn said:

or just 

array_rand([$orange, $apple]);

 

array_rand only returns the key (or keys) of the randomly selected items. So, that line would only return a 0 or 1 - which is not helpful without the original array to get the value from. It makes more sense to create an array as a variable first, the use array rand to get the value like so:

$values = ['orange', 'apple'];
$randomValue = $values[array_rand($values)];

Edited April 17, 2019 by Psycho