PHP Random

Elarion

Hi folks, can someone help me with this please. I'm quite new to PHP, i'm trying to randomly chose an include, here's what I have :

<?php

$Array=array("include/links/xml_parse.html", "include/links/xml_parse.html");
$random_key=array_rand($Array,1);
print "include( "$Array[$random_key]" ) $Array[$random_key] )";

include/links/xml_parse.html is the file i'm trying to call just to see if I can get it working, then will edit the links to make it call 1 random include file from a list.

At the moment it keeps pulling an error with T_String

Hope someone can help,

Elarion

laserlight

<?php

$Array = array("include/links/xml_parse.html", "include/links/xml_parse.html");
$random_key = array_rand($Array);
include($Array[$random_key]);
print $Array[$random_key]; //print this to check, apparently

?>

Note that you may have to seed the random number generator with srand() first.

Elarion

Many thanks Laserlight that worked fine on the .html files, now I tried to include a .php file in the same directory and pulls an error :

Warning: main(xml_results5.php?qry=Loan) [function.main]: failed to create stream: No such file or directory in /hsphere/local/home/truesear/1truesearch.com/search/test.php on line 13

Warning: main() [function.main]: Failed opening 'xml_results5.php?qry=Loan' for inclusion (include_path='.:/usr/local/lib/php') in /hsphere/local/home/truesear/1truesearch.com/search/test.php on line 13

http://www.1truesearch.com/search/test.php

Code line is now :

<?php

$Array = array("xml_results5.php?qry=Loan", "xml_results5.php?qry=Car");
$random_key = array_rand($Array);
include($Array[$random_key]);

laserlight

not too sure what is the problem.
probably is the querystring appended.
perhaps use header() instead?

Elarion

header pulls the following error :

Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /hsphere/local/home/truesear/1truesearch.com/search/test.php:9) in /hsphere/local/home/truesear/1truesearch.com/search/test.php on line 13

laserlight

well, then you have to check for blank lines and html output before the
header("Location: $Array[$random_key]");

Elarion

Your wonderful, on its own it works a treat.

'however' my last problem is now I have tried to include it into a html page, so i've done a normal include of :

I have SSI setup to check html files, normal includes work fine.

but it doesn't do anything, no error, no load, nothing in the code, nowt, any ideas?