PHP - Function array_rand()

Syntax

array_rand ( $input [, $num_req] );

Definition and Usage

This function pick one or more random entries out of an array.

Parameters

Return Values

It returns an array of keys for the random entries.

Example

Try out following example −

<?php
   $input = array("a"=>"banana","b"=>"apple","c"=>"orange");
   
   print_r(array_rand($input));
?> 

This will produce the following result, This result will vary every time you will execute script −

b