I've looked around online for the answer to my problem, but I can't seem to articulate myself well enough.

I have foreach statement, which sometimes outputs a large number of items to parse. However, I only want to grab three at random and parse them. If there are less than three entries, I obviously want them all to show.

Do I use the increment function? Thanks for your help.

    Would something like this solve your problem?

    if (sizeof($firstArray) <= 3) {
   // parse all values of $firstArray using a foreach
}
else {
   // select three random values using array_rand() and parse those
}

      I might do something like:

      shuffle($array);
$counter = 0;
foreach($array as $value)
{
   // do something with $value
   if(++$counter >= 3)
   {
      break;
   }
}
        NogDog wrote:

        I might do something like:

        shuffle($array);
$counter = 0;
foreach($array as $value)
{
   // do something with $value
   if(++$counter >= 3)
   {
      break;
   }
}

        Thanks, that was exactly what I needed. I've always had trouble with incrementing.

        G

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