how to select 3 fruit from 4 fruit in sequence and alternately?

for example i have this sequence : orange, banana, apple and raspberry. i want to show 3 data in sequence and alternately like this :

etc
note :
the amount of data i want to display changes

i try using array_push and array_pop but i stuck when i want to random it. here my code :

array_push

array_pop

<?php
$stack = array("orange", "banana");
array_push($stack, "apple", "raspberry");
array_pop($stack);
print_r($stack);
?>


can anyone fix my code?

2 Answers
2

you can use this code :

function pickElementsFromArray($array, $countToPick)
{
$start = rand(0, count($array)-1);
$picked = 0;
$elements = ;
while ($picked < $countToPick) {
$elements = $array[$start];
$start++;
if ($start >= count($array)) {
$start = 0;
}
$picked++;
}

return $elements;
}

$array = ["orange", "banana", "apple", "raspberry"];
$elemsToPick = 3;
$elements = pickElementsFromArray($array, $elemsToPick);


This functions starts the picking from a random position and from there it picks n elements. if the end of the array is reached, it restarts from the begining

You can try this

$fruits=array('orange', 'banana', 'apple', 'raspberry');
function pick($count,$fruits){
$counter=0;
for ($i = 0; $i <=count($fruits)+1 ; $i++) {
if ($i>=$count) {
if ($counter<=2) {
if (array_key_exists($i, $fruits)) {
echo $fruits[$i];
echo '<br>';
$counter++;
}
else{
$counter++;
echo $fruits[0];
}
}
}
}
}

echo pick(0,$fruits);
echo '<br>';
echo pick(1,$fruits);
echo '<br>';
echo pick(2,$fruits);


OUTPUT:

orange
banana
apple

banana
apple
raspberry

apple
raspberry
orange

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