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user2737579
user2737579

Reputation: 19

Insert random url into src= ( PHP )

I'm trying to display a random YouTube video on refresh of my page but it doesn't work. I have the PHP that is working here:

<?php 
$video_array = array 
('http://www.youtube.com/embed/rMNNDINCFHg', 
'http://www.youtube.com/embed/bDF6DVzKFFg', 
'http://www.youtube.com/embed/bDF6DVzKFFg'); 
$total = count($video_array); 
$random = (mt_rand()%$total); 
$video = "$video_array[$random]"; 
?>

that I'm trying to put into this:

<iframe width='1006' height='421' src='<?php echo $video; ?>' frameborder='0'       allowfullscreen></iframe>

but it seems like it's not working. Could you guys help me out? Thanks! I've been looking for 2 hours and got the same bad results.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1153

Answers (4)

Vishal Chawla
Vishal Chawla

Reputation: 57

Try this code...

<?php 
$video_array = array 
('http://www.youtube.com/embed/rMNNDINCFHg', 
'http://www.youtube.com/embed/bDF6DVzKFFg', 
'http://www.youtube.com/embed/bDF6DVzKFFg'); 
$total = count($video_array); 
$random = rand(0, $total-1); 
$video = $video_array[$random]; 
?>

Upvotes: 0

skrilled
skrilled

Reputation: 5371

I'm all about one-liners :x

<?php echo $video_array[rand(0,(count($video_array)-1))]; ?>

Other answers thus far are not reducing count()... this will cause errors when it grabs the highest number, as the beginning index==0

Upvotes: 0

Ali
Ali

Reputation: 3461

<?php 
$video_array = array 
('http://www.youtube.com/embed/rMNNDINCFHg', 
'http://www.youtube.com/embed/bDF6DVzKFFg', 
'http://www.youtube.com/embed/bDF6DVzKFFg'); 
shuffle($video_array);
$video = $video_array[0]; 
?>

then you can just embed it.

<iframe width='1006' height='421' src='<?php echo $video; ?>' frameborder='0'       allowfullscreen></iframe>

Upvotes: 2

Rottingham
Rottingham

Reputation: 2604

Not sure what why you are doing this:

$video = "$video_array[$random]";

Make that look like this

$video = $video_array[$random];

Upvotes: 0

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