Random placing of pictures

Boxkites

I have designed a raffle project to help people out and would like some help with the raffle draw side of things.
I have sold 30 tickets and would like to know if it is possible to have all those tickets/numbers [replaced by blank buttons], placed on a page in random order so that the person making the draw can click a button and not know what the number is. The blank buttons can be seen to have a number on them in the html code right now.

here is the page where the tickets were placed on. http://www.softkites.com/Raffle/index.php

I would like to keep it in the same context but rather than the button having sold on it, they will be blank buttons in random order hopefully

Thanks
Robert

NogDog

Well...you could "cheat" and have each button be identical, then on the server-side PHP script it calls, just use [man]mt_rand/man to do the actual random selection.

Boxkites

Well yes that is a solution I did not think of. thanks

Any others?

I can do it in flash as well but that is a lot of work. I am looking for an easy way.

Robert

Boxkites

I just thought of a solution without changing the script, I don't know why I did not think of it before, just change the name of the images, instead of calling it "ticketnr1.jpg", call it something like "76554449.jpg".
That way if anybody looks at the source code it will not tell them exactly what the number is.

I am still interested hearing if there is a different way just using flat files.
We might do more raffle draws in the future so it will be a handy tool.