Smarty multiple random numbers list

Question

Hey Stackoverflow-Folks, is there any smart way to post random numbers (e.g. 1-4) in a list by using the smarty tpl-engine?

standart list sorted 1-5:

<ul>
  <li>1</li>
  <li>2</li>
  <li>3</li>
  <li>4</li>
  <li>5</li>
</ul>

Here's my solution (PHP):

<ul>
{foreach from=randomNumbers}
<li>{smarty.randomNumbers}</li>
{/foreach}
</ul>

modified list sorted 1-5 (random):

<ul>
  <li>3</li>
  <li>2</li>
  <li>5</li>
  <li>1</li>
  <li>4</li>
</ul>

I've really tested nearly everything, but I do only need a smart & small solution for this :-)

Kind Regards, Heinrich

Answer 1

You can use the rand() function from php in smarty. Pass the parameter as the number of times you run the loop and you should be done.

Answer 2

thank you tom !

works well, but my output is still numeric and not random like this:

<ul>
  <li>5</li>
  <li>2</li>
  <li>4</li>
  <li>1</li>
  <li>3</li>
</ul>

or

<ul>
  <li>4</li>
  <li>1</li>
  <li>5</li>
  <li>3</li>
  <li>2</li>
</ul>

etc...

hope you can help me out :)

Heinrich

Answer 3

ok, it seems to be a PHP-Problem. Since the last PHP versions, array_rand isn't random any more. I've tried to add something like this

    |shuffle

or

    shuffle();

to tom's smarty-code,

but without success >_<

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