Question

I want to link to a page selected randomly from all the html files in a directory.

I have tried http://www.url.com/directory/?random but only get a 404 error.

Are there permissions that I need to change? What is the simplest way of doing this?

Answer 1

There is no magic in programming.

http://www.example.com/directory/?random

Won’t give you magically a random page in that directory.

You need to write a script to do that. Example random.php.

So you would do something like:

http://www.example.com/directory/random.php

In that random.php script, you need to write code for:

1. List all the pages in that directory
2. Generate a random number (1 <= n <= number_of_pages_in_directory)
3. Take the page corresponding to that number
4. Redirecting the browser to that page

Code for random.php should be relatively simple.