im currently in the middle of designing a website for a client and basically we have a testimonials page which i will uses simple html to document them, but we also have a right side bar on each page which currently is not doing anything so i thought it would be a good idea to write a little php script which would generate a random testimonial and echo it out into a <div>. It works fine, but each div displays the same testimonial, and obviously i want them to be completely unique.

 

Here is the code im using

im callig this from a seperate file

<?php
     $randRotate = rand(0,4);

     $text[0] = 'Your text 1';
     $text[1] = 'Your text 2';
     $text[2] = 'Your text 3';
     $text[3] = 'Your text 4';
     $text[4] = 'Your text 5';
?> 

 

And then in each separate div i have

<?php
echo($text[$randRotate]);
?> 

 

im not brillian with php, but i understand the concept of it.

 

thanks for any help you can give

http://php.net/manual/en/function.array-rand.php

 

Check example #1

thats worked, i am now in theory getting a different random value, but i am still getting duplicate random entries.

 

Is there a way i can validate it to keep randomizing the selection until the returned result is totally unique?

 

this will be awful syntax probably but something like this....

 

<?php
if ($text = = $text [$rand_keys]);
?>

 

thanks

You can pass it through array_unique() and that will remove any duplicates.

hmm, ive tried array_unique() but cant seem to get it to work

 

php hurts my brain....