Display a random link from my site? - php

Question

I have a website with a lot of static content pages which are divided by categories, each category has a folder and index.html inside
What I want to do is to put some code inside the main index.php file in a way that whenever a user visits this index.php file, he will be redirected to one of my folders,
For example:
index.php code :
<?php
random_redirect_the_user();
?>
Where random_redirect_the_user() will redirect the user to http://www.example.com/wiki/(FOLDER)
And (FOLDER) is randomly chosen and can be any folder of the ones that appear above.
The question :
What shall I write inside the random_redirect_the_user() to perform this kind of redirection ?

Answer 1

Try something like this: First, get the array of names of all folders:
$dir = '/tmp'; //here set you main folder
$foldersArray = scandir($dir)
Then, get a random name:
$randomFolderKey = array_rand($foldersArray);
After that, do the following:
header('Location: www.youwebsiteUrl/'.$foldersArray[$randomFolderKey])

Answer 2

var $directories = Read your folder list from the server (Search for: PHP Read directories)
Get a random directory (Search for: PHP random)
// You can get a random between 0 and count($directories)
Then redirect your user: (Search for: PHP redirect | PHP header )
And you are done!

Answer 3

This should do what you are looking for.
Hope it helps
function random_redirect_the_user(){
$dir_list = array();
$path = '/path/to/directory/';
if ($handle = opendir($path)) {
while (false !== ($entry = readdir($handle))) {
if($entry == '.' || $entry == '..'){
continue;
}
if(is_dir ( $path.''.$entry )){
array_push($dir_list, $path.''.$entry);
}
}
}
$count = count($dir_list);
$random = rand(0,$count);
return $dir_list[$random];
}
$dir = random_redirect_the_user();
echo $dir;