Select random file from directory

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You can use glob to get all files in a directory, and then take a random element from that array. A function like this would do it for you:

function random_pic($dir="uploads")
{
    $files = glob($dir . '/*.*');
    $file = array_rand($files);
    return $files[$file];
}

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