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Output array elements randomly with PHP

Lets say we have this code:

<? if (isset($specialoffers)) { ?>
    <? foreach ($specialoffers as $value) { ?>

      <div>product #</div>

    <?};?>
<?};?>

For example this list may be different everytime, it may have 1 product, and it may have 58 products. I want do display only 10 products in the list and in a random order.

How to do that?

I would like not to touch the SQL query!

Answer 1

Take a look at the array_rand function which takes one or more random elements from an array.

So, you could do something along the lines of:

foreach (array_rand($specialoffers,10) as $key) 
do_something_interesting_with $specialoffers[$key];