使用PHP更改元素的顺序

Question

I have some markup like so:

<div class="list">

    <article> content... </article>
    <article> content... </article>
    <article> content... </article>
    <article> content... </article>
    <article> content... </article>

</div>

What I want to do is make the order of what these articles appears on the page random. What would be the best and easiest way to do this?

I thought about doing some sort of length count and storing it in an array and then spitting them back out again in a random order. e.g.

$numbers = range(1, 20);
shuffle($numbers);
foreach ($numbers as $number) {
    echo "$number ";
}

Can anyone offer ideas etc? Thanks

NOTE: These are not coming from a database!

Answer 1

Every day I'm shuffling!

But yeah, having your contents in a PHP array, then displaying them all through a little foreach would be fine. Example :

$content = array('content1', 'content2', 'content3');
shuffle($content);
echo '<div>';
foreach($content as $value) {
  echo '<article>', $value, '</article>';
}
echo '</div>';