Select random file from directory

Question

I\'m trying to make a site where users can submit photos, and then randomly view others photos one by one on another page. I have a directory called \"uploads\" where the pi

Answer 1

This single line of code displays one random image from the target directory.

Target directory: /images/

Image prefix: image_

Number of images in directory: 127

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Drawbacks

• images must be named sequentially (eg image_1.png, image_2.png, image_3.png, etc).

• you need to know how many images are in the directory in advance.

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Alternatives

Perhaps there's a simple way to make this work with arbitrary image-names and file-count, so you don't have to rename or count your files.

Untested ideas:

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• shuffle()

• scanDir() with rand(1,scanDir.length)