How to assign random string value to variable in PHP5

[Ramakanta Sahoo]

Hi All,

I have something like below. want to use any of the random values each time any query happens.

<?php
class JConfig {
	var $abc=array("aomdb1", "aomdb1p1", "aomdb1p2", "aomdb1p3", "aomdb1p4", "aomdb1p5", "aomdb1p6", "aomdb1p7", "aomdb1p8", "aomdb1p9", "aomdb1p10", "aomdb1p11");
	var $random = (rand()%10);
//	shuffle($abc);

	var $user=$abc[$random]; //want to achieve like below commented line and want it to be suffled always so that one value wont get assigned to the variable user 2times in  row 
//	var $user = 'aomdb1p1';
}
?>

when I tried to run it gave me a error like below
Parse error: syntax error, unexpected '('

I just want to rotate the usernames when ever I query for $user , can you please let me know how to achieve this.


I'm very new to PHP so please bear with my silly syntax questions

[Unnar Björnsson]

If I understand you correctly you want to retrieve a random value from $abc each time an instance of the class is created, in that case you would use rand(minvalue, maxvalue) i.e:

var $random = rand(0,count($abc)-1);