shuffle slider display - php

Question

i have a problem on the slider of my site, though the slider works fine and good but i need it to be random or shuffle instead of displaying an ordered content..
i already have the code and it need some modification.
this is the line on the main file.php
<script type="text/javascript">
$(document).ready(function() {
$('#slider1').s3Slider({
timeOut: 8000
});
});
<div id="slider1">
<ul id="slider1Content">
<li class="slider1Image">
<img src="products/1.png" alt="1" />
<span class="left">
caption1
</span>
</li>
<li class="slider1Image">
<img src="products/2.png" alt="2" />
<span class="right">caption2
</span>
</li>
<li class="slider1Image">
<img src="products/3.png" alt="3" />
<span class="right">caption3.
</span>
</li></div>
this is the java script file
(function($){
$.fn.s3Slider = function(vars) {
var element = this;
var timeOut = (vars.timeOut != undefined) ? vars.timeOut : 4000;
var current = null;
var timeOutFn = null;
var faderStat = true;
var mOver = false;
var items = $("#" + element[0].id + "Content ." + element[0].id + "Image");
var itemsSpan = $("#" + element[0].id + "Content ." + element[0].id + "Image span");
items.each(function(i) {
$(items[i]).mouseover(function() {
mOver = true;
});
$(items[i]).mouseout(function() {
mOver = false;
fadeElement(true);
});
});
var fadeElement = function(isMouseOut) {
var thisTimeOut = (isMouseOut) ? (timeOut/2) : timeOut;
thisTimeOut = (faderStat) ? 10 : thisTimeOut;
if(items.length > 0) {
timeOutFn = setTimeout(makeSlider, thisTimeOut);
} else {
console.log("Poof..");
}
}
var makeSlider = function() {
current = (current != null) ? current : items[(items.length-1)];
var currNo = jQuery.inArray(current, items) + 1
currNo = (currNo == items.length) ? 0 : (currNo - 1);
var newMargin = $(element).width() * currNo;
if(faderStat == true)
{
if(!mOver) {
$(items[currNo]).fadeIn((timeOut/6), function() {
if($(itemsSpan[currNo]).css('bottom') == 0) {
$(itemsSpan[currNo]).slideUp((timeOut/6), function() {
faderStat = false;
current = items[currNo];
if(!mOver) {
fadeElement(false);
}
});
} else {
$(itemsSpan[currNo]).slideDown((timeOut/6), function() {
faderStat = false;
current = items[currNo];
if(!mOver) {
fadeElement(false);
}
});
}
});
}
} else {
if(!mOver) {
if($(itemsSpan[currNo]).css('bottom') == 0) {
$(itemsSpan[currNo]).slideDown((timeOut/6), function() {
$(items[currNo]).fadeOut((timeOut/6), function() {
faderStat = true;
current = items[(currNo+1)];
if(!mOver) {
fadeElement(false);
}
});
});
} else {
$(itemsSpan[currNo]).slideUp((timeOut/6), function() {
$(items[currNo]).fadeOut((timeOut/6), function() {
faderStat = true;
current = items[(currNo+1)];
if(!mOver) {
fadeElement(false);
}
});
});
}
}
}
}
makeSlider();
};})(jQuery);
i am struggling modifying this script for almost a week ... please help

Answer 1

Not sure if your still looking for a solution... I've just done this, but thought it would have been a better method to write the li tags out server side by calling them from a random array. That's if your using server side scriptiing - Below is what I did in php.
$arr = array("
Some text", "
Some text", "
Some text", );
$arrCnt = count($arr);
for ($i=0; $i<=$arrCnt; $i++)
{
$random = array_rand($arr);
echo "<li class='sliderImage'>";
echo $arr[$random];
echo "</li>\n";
if($i<$arrCnt-1)
unset($arr[$random]);
}
?>
Hope that helps.