Here is a quick way to express a chance of something happening. This is an example in JavaScript that gives you a 1 in 3 chance of being true. [true, false, false].sort(function(){ return Math.random() >= 0.5 ? 1 : -1 })[0] Basically, we popu...

Use this snippet for grabbing a random item from an array in php $fruits = ['apple', 'banana', 'carrot', 'date', 'elderberry']; echo array_rand(array_flip($fruits)); // => 'banana' PHP's `array_flip` makes the keys the values and the valu...

I assumed that rand would take a range as an argument. Something like rand(10..20), generating a random number between 10 and 20. Seems like you'd do this fairly often when working with random numbers and therefore, included. However, it doesn't work. But...