Help with Shuffle command

Anon

I'm trying to shuffle a bunch of files. They don't have to be in any particular order, but they do have to be random and they ALL have to appear each time.

I Got a parse error " expected ')" on line 5 " - line 5 is the array below

Heres the syntax:

$img="/php/SC/img";

$ads = array( ""$img/softnet.htm"",""$img/wiremix.htm"",""$img/igm.htm"",
""$img/globalinteractive.htm"",""$img/gocall.htm"",""$img/1stgenx.htm"",
""$img/poker.htm"",""$img/realtime.htm"",""$img/dotcoment.htm"",
""$img/goldplay.htm"",""$img/i-net.htm"",""$img/iiga.htm"",
""$img/iql.htm"",""$img/sri.htm"");
// array of filenames

//seed random function

srand ((double) microtime() * 10000000);

//shuffle and reset array

shuffle($ads);
reset($ads);

//loop through shuffled array
for ($i = 0; $i < count($ads); $i++, $item ) // **Note there is a '<' but no '>' - where does
the '>' go?

{
include( $ads[$i]);
}

If you guys could help...that would be great.

jariizumi

First of all, you have "" where it should be just one, which is truly messing things up. That's what the parse error is all about. I don't know what you had in mind... If you want to put quotes in a string, then you have to escape them with a backslash:

echo "Hello, isn\'t PHP fun?";

And as to your comment about the "unmatched" less than sign... That's a MATHEMATICAL "less-than" sign, not an HTML tag open sign. Don't get too stuck on matching every symbol... it's not always linear as you can expect it to be.

Anon

Made the corrections you suggested and got the thing to work. However, it doesn't really seem random. The same bunches of files always appear adjacent to each other. I cleared the cache on my browser and then reloaded. Even still, it random, but not completely random, the same 3 or 4 files are always adjacent to each other.

What I want is ALL the files in the Array to always appear, ALL in a random order every time the screen is loaded or refreshed.

here's the code.

<?
srand (time()); //seed random function - I also used srand ((double) microtime() * 10000000) - didn't make a difference

$img="/php/SC/img";

$ads = array( "$img/softnet.htm","$img/wiremix.htm","$img/igm.htm","$img/globalinteractive.htm","$img/gocall.htm","$img/1stgenx.htm","$img/poker.htm","$img/realtime.htm","$img/dotcoment.htm","$img/goldplay.htm","$img/i-net.htm","$img/iiga.htm","$img/iql.htm","$img/sri.htm");
// array of filenames

//shuffle and reset array

shuffle($ads);
reset($ads);

//loop through shuffled array

for ($i = 0; $i < count($ads); $i++, $item )
{
include( $ads[$i]);
}

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Read the annontation in the manual:
Shuffle is not shuffling very well.
An alternative function is posted there also.