How do I retrieve items from an array in random order?

Hi. Can you help me please?
Is there any way to show a unique random item from an array, every time you refresh the page? In other words how do I show the items from an array in random order, one by one, by reloading the page?
Moreover the page have to be refreshed by pressing the "submit" button...

Thats what I achieved so far :) but it doesn't display the UNIQUE array item every time the page is reloaded...
as you may guess :)

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  <html>

<head><title></title></head>

<body>

<?php

$testArray = array ("one","two","three","four","five");

$number = rand(0,4);

echo "$testArray[$number]";

?>

<form method="post" action="test.php">

<input type="submit" value="Submit">

</form>

</body>

</html>

I'm a designer/ActionScript sort of a guy and know nothing about php,
so please don't laugh. :)
Any help is appreciated

Philip

May 10 '10 #1

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it works as expected (at least for me), although you have to bear in mind that one out of five doesn’t give you a good distribution. it scrambled a bit better when using a larger base:

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$number = rand(0, 100) % 5;

May 10 '10 #2

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array_rand() could maybe... possibly... work for you? ;)

May 10 '10 #3

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