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Help - random video clips

scorpion

I have a directory in which i store video on my Apache Webserver, Red Hat 7.
Right now I am using this html to display the video:

</p>
</body>

How can i get this to do a random video clip?
I am new to php (1 month) and have been doing well with it so far, thanks to this site.

Scorpion,
http://ScorpionsDen.d2g.com
ICQ# 106451637

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Use "opendir()" to get a directorylisting, to get an array of all clip-names.
Use srand and rand to get a random number between 1 and the number of clips.
Pick that filename from the array, and use it.

scorpion

----==== problem solved with this ====----

<body bgcolor="#004200">
<center>
<h1>Random Clip</h1>
<?php

print getRandomMovie('../clips/',320,260,2);

function getRandomMovie($dir,$h,$w,$b)
{
$movie = getRandomImage($dir);

$s = '<embed src="'.$dir.$movie.'" cache="true" controller="true"';
$s .= ' width="'. $h .'" height="'. $w. '" border="'.$b.'"></embed>';

return $s;
}
function getRandomImage($dir,$type='random')
{
global $errors;

if (is_dir($dir)) {

$fd = opendir($dir);

$images = array();

  while (($part = @readdir($fd)) == true) {  

  clearstatcache();

      if ( eregi("(avi|mov|mpeg|mpg)$",$part) ) {
          $images[] = $part; 
      } 
  } 

// adding this in case you want to return the image array
if ($type == 'all') { return $images; }

// Be sure to call srand() once per script
srand ((double) microtime() * 1000000); 
$key = rand (0,sizeof($images)-1); 

return $dir . $images[$key];

} else {
$errors[] = $dir.' is not a directory';
return false;
}
}

?>
<br><b><br>refreshing this page loads another clip</b>
</center>
</body>