How to get random value out of an array?

Asked 2009-10-29T12:39:47.383

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I have an array called $ran = array(1,2,3,4);

I need to get a random value out of this array and store it in a variable, how can I do this?

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$rand = rand(1,4);

or, for arrays specifically:

$array = array('a value', 'another value', 'just some value', 'not some value');
$rand = $array[ rand(0, count($array)-1) ];

answered 2009-10-29T12:42:46.450