Generate Random Links from BIG LIST of links ??

[luke777]

I need some kind of code in php that can display 10 random links from a big list of links.

 

So i have a file links.php which contains a list of lets say 1000's of links,

how can i grab just 10 RANDOM links from that list to display on a webpage.

 

Please help me !

 

Thanks Luke.

[AndyB]

Would have been a nice idea to have had the links in a database. Then this would have been trivial.

 

Does links.php contain anything except thousands of lines each one of which is a link?  What's its structure?  Post a few lines of it.

[php_joe]

Try this:

<?
$lines = file("./link_list.txt");
shuffle($lines);
$i = '0';
while($i < 10){
echo "<a href=\"$lines[$i]\">$lines[$i]</a>";
$i++;
}
?>

[luke777]

Ok I got this working

 

But the only probelm is it sometimes displays the same link twice :S

 

Is there some way of removing duplicates???

[AndyB]

Oh, you mean your original list has duplicates?

[bobleny]

Dang while loops!

 

I think you should use this instead... They do the exact same thing though.. lol

<?php
$lines = file("./link_list.txt");
shuffle($lines);
for($i = 0; $i < 10; $i++)
{
        echo "<a href=\"$lines[$i]\">$lines[$i]</a>";
}
?>

 

 

Also, I believe the only way to get duplicates, is if you have duplicates in the file....

[luke777]

Ok thanks alot for your help, great forum ill be sticking around !

 

Luke.