Question

Please take a look at this link: Random entry from dictionary

That example is C#, however, my question is how to generate a random entry from the dictionary in php?

Does php have an inbuilt function for dictionaries, or will I need an API or something else to do this?

Answer 1

array_rand might do what you want, if I understand the question correctly.

$array = array(
    'key' => 'value',
    'key2' => 'value2',
    // etc
);
$randomKey = array_rand($array); // get a random key
echo $array[$randomKey]; // get the corresponding value