How to load random URL from a file in php

Question

I am trying to create news portal. and I want to load random news link which is in the list.txt file and created a php script which calls the list.txt and load the link from the list.

checkout my codes.

script.php

    <?php 

$loadlist = explode("\n", file_get_contents('list.txt'));
$rand = rand(0,count($loadlist)-1);

// Here is our random link URL
$picked = $loadlist[$rand];
?>

<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="2;url=<?php echo $picked; ?>">

list.txt

http://news.com/news1.html
http://news.com/news2.html
http://news.com/news3.html
http://news.com/news4.html
http://news.com/news5.html

Above code is working fine now, thanks

Answer 1

Get a random integer based on item count of your $loadlist array.

$loadlist = explode("\n", file_get_contents('list.txt'));
$rand = rand(0,count($loadlist)-1);

// Here is our random link URL
$picked = $loadlist[$rand];