Posted by Philip Ronan on 11/10/05 20:13

"Nel" wrote:

> The problem is displaying the contents of an array in what appears to be
> random order, but in fact is a set sequence depending on a given value (e.g.
> the day of the month).

(snip)

> The order itself is not important, but what is important is the apparent
> random sequence is really repeatable.

Seed the random number generator based on the day of the month and use
array_rand() to shuffle the contents

$day = 1 * date('j');
srand($day);
$random_array = array_rand($array);

(I haven't tested this, but it ought to work)

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