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Title : PHP Random rss feeds - selects 49 random feeds from an unlimited list and displays them on your website. It's Ideal for those moments when you got 5 minutes and dont know which one of your feeds to read.
Categories : PHP, Rich Site Summary (RSS), Arrays Click here to Update Your Picture
Tony thom
Date : Jun 16th 2007
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This is my first post so i hope you like it.
The following selects 49 random feeds from an unlimited list and displays them on your website. It's Ideal for those moments when you got 5 minutes and dont know which one of your feeds to read. See it in action here : http://www.ozonew4m.com/random-webmaster-feeds.php

First of all lets pull all our rss urls from the text file and put them in an array
<?php
$chars
= "";
$chars = file('feedlist.txt');
?>


Next we create a nice little function that will jumble all our urls around inside the array and retrieve 49 random results in an array according to a paramaters we specify.
These are ($feedarray,$amounttoretrieve,randomkey)

<?php
function random_subarray($ary, $len, $key) {     
srand($key);     shuffle($ary);
     return
array_slice($ary, 0, $len);
}
?>


now we use microtime to generate a random key for the function.
<?php
srand
((double)microtime()*1000000); 
$code = rand(0,100);
?>


Now we have the data we need call the function.The following tells the function we want 49 results randomised using our random key. (NOTE: A static key will yeild static results)

<?php
$fred
= (random_subarray($chars, 49, $code));
?>


Now all we need to do is go through our array and display our reslts in a mystery graph so we can choose which one to read.
The following is optimised to display 7x7=49 results but you can display them how you wish.

<?php
$rows
= 7;
$count = 0;
echo
"<h1> Random rss News </h1>";
echo
"<h2>Select any of the boxes below to view a news feed</h2>";
echo
"<p>The following table retrieves a selection of 49 feeds from a growing list and displays them randomly. </p>";
echo
"<table width='100%'><tr><td align='center'><b>Enjoy the Feeds</b><table cellpadding='10'><tr>";

foreach (
$fred as $key) {
   
$count++;
echo
"<td><a href='rssfeed.php?feed=$key'><img src='mysteryfeed.jpg'width='25'height='25'style='border: 0;'alt='feed $count' /></a></td>";
    if (
$count % $rows == 0) {
    if (
$count != 49) {
        print
"</tr><tr>";
}
    }
    if (
$count == 49) {
        print
"</tr>";
    }
}
echo
"</table><p><a href='feedslist.php'>View a complete list of feeds.</a><br /></p>";
echo
"</td></tr></table>";
?>


If you download the zip file it also contains a page to display the feeds, a list off webmaster feeds, a page to display a full list of your feeds






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