Array help needed

I have the following code, it selects a random thing from the array (in this case a hex code) and then adds it to the variable $color, however I have 1.7K hex codes I need to add, which is gonna be very time consuming, so is there anyway I can make it work with a .txt file instead?

<?php
$array = array(
'FFF',
'FF0000',
'000'
);

$numbers = array();
$rand = rand(0, count($array)-1);

function getrand($rand, $numbers, $array) {
    while (in_array($rand, $numbers)) $rand = rand(0,count($array)-1);
    return $rand;
}
$n = getrand($rand, $numbers, $array);
array_push($numbers, $n);
$color = $array[$n];
?>

PHP:

Help appreciated!

 

http://us.php.net/file

Check out the file function. It reads a file into an array suing new lines as a delimeter.

 

Galen is correct you can just read from a file, but if thats done on every page load itll be slow

What are you trying to achieve?
There might be a simpler way.

 

I got this:

<?php

$lines = file('hex.txt');

foreach ($lines as $line) {
    echo "'" . htmlspecialchars($line) . "'<br />\n";
}
?>

PHP:

I was thinking if I managed to spit out 'hex', I could put that it into an array, but there's always a space on the end before the ',

 

sorry dude i dunno how your file is constructed
OR why on earth you need 17thousand different hex values
I'd personally find a common factor between the values then do it programmatically.

I.e. if you just needed ~17k colours, you could quite easily make a script to generate colours based on the fact.

 

1700 colours, I'm randomising the background, I could cut it down alot I guess though, but I'd still have this problem.

 

Try this instead

creates random number from 0-255 converts it to hex then adds 0 before if necessary.