need script made very easy php

i need a script made that will pick a random image from a folder or a list

know what i mean

 

You mean like this ? http://www.hfolder.com/php_random_image/ refresh page to see image change

 

Try this..

<?php

$files = scandir('./images/');
$filter = array('', '.', '..');
$file = '';
while (in_array($file, $filter)) {
	$file = $files[array_rand($files, 1)];
}

echo $file; // do whatever you want with this result.

?>

PHP:

 

Here is the code for above link that I have sent

http://www.hfolder.com/php_random_image/code.rar


Have fun

 

Wouldn't you have an infinite loop if the folder happens to be empty?

 

I don't think there will be an infinite loop because because the resulting array of scandir will always have two entries - . and .. even if there are no files inside the directory. But that's only based on my observation..

Just to be safe.. here's a modified version.

<?php

$files = scandir('./images/');
$filter = array('', '.', '..');
$file = '';
if (count($files)>2) {
	while (in_array($file, $filter)) {
	    $file = $files[array_rand($files, 1)];
	}
}

echo $file; // do whatever you want with this result.

?>

PHP:

 

thanks for the code it works great

 

How would it break out of the loop? Every time through, $file would be '', '.', or '..'.

But yeah, the fixed version doesn't have this problem.