How to get a random key from a PHP array

How to get a random key from a PHP array

In this post, i will tell you how to get random key from PHP array.

array_rand method in PHP will return the keys of the random entries.

This method takes two argument : first will be the input array and second argument specifies how many entries you want to picked.

Each time when you refresh the page you will get different number.

Syntax :

array_rand(array,number)
Example :
  1. <?php
  2. $arr = array('a','b','c','d','e','f');
  3. $random_key = array_rand($arr, 3);
  4. print_r($random_key);
  5. ?>    

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