Posted by Shelly on 06/14/05 03:04

<chernyshevsky@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> I'm just guessing that the script involves paging through a list of
> fifty images, five at a time. If that's case you'd need to have the
> same array as you go from page to page. Otherwise then, yes, as you
> said, you can just pop 5 numbers off the array.
>
> Another way to maintain the same randomized array across pages is to
> seed the random number engine with a fixed number, like today's date. A
> useful trick when you don't want to use session.
>

Isn't this doing double work? The shuffle randomizes the array. Then, all
you need to do is take the first five elements, since they are already in
random order. -- or am I missing something?

Shelly

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