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    copied!<p>The <strong>code used</strong> below will take 10 random files from any of the 3 folders listed in GLOB_BRACE.</p> <p><strong>eg:</strong></p> <pre><code>$files = (glob('../{folder1,folder2,folder3}/*.php', GLOB_BRACE)); </code></pre> <p>i would like to echo the folder name in the url seen below $thelist </p> <pre><code>$thelist .= '&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="../'.$folder 1 or 2 or 3.'/'.$file.'"&gt;'.$title.'&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;'; </code></pre> <p>So when it's displayed on my page it reads.</p> <pre><code>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="../folder1/page-name.php"&gt;what ever&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="../folder3/page-name.php"&gt;what ever&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="../folder1/page-name.php"&gt;what ever&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="../folder2/page-name.php"&gt;what ever&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="../folder1/page-name.php"&gt;what ever&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="../folder3/page-name.php"&gt;what ever&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="../folder2/page-name.php"&gt;what ever&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="../folder3/page-name.php"&gt;what ever&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="../folder1/page-name.php"&gt;what ever&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="../folder2/page-name.php"&gt;what ever&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt; </code></pre> <p><strong>Code used:</strong></p> <pre><code>&lt;?php $files = (glob('../{folder1,folder2,folder3}/*.php', GLOB_BRACE)); /* change php to the file you require either html php jpg png. */ shuffle($files); $selection = array_slice($files, 0, 11); foreach ($selection as $file) { $file = basename($file); if ($file == 'index.php') continue; $title = str_replace('-', ' ', pathinfo($file, PATHINFO_FILENAME)); $randomlist .= '&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="../'.$folder 1 or 2 or 3.'/'.$file.'"&gt;'.$title.'&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;'; } ?&gt; &lt;?=$randomlist?&gt; </code></pre>
 

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