This is the first time I make a class :shy2:. I start to make this class because I found my random functions are hard to manage.
The class can be used to select one or a group of item(strings, objects, anything) from the entire collection of items. It include randomly select, randomly select unique.
It also include function to randomly select weighted items and randomly select unique weighted items. Weighted items are items assigned a weight, so it can show up more frequently than ones with lower weight.
My English sucks so, I think this version to describe the class is much better:
PHP Classes:
This class can be used to pick a random item from a collection.
It can add to a collection of items that can be values of any type: strings, numbers, objects, etc.. Each item may have a probability weight.
The class can pick one or more random items from the collection. When picking multiple items it may allow repetition of the same item or assure that all the picked items are unique.
It can also pick random items considering their probability weight, so those with greater weight are more likely to be picked.
This could be great on making PHP games.
Here is the highlighted source code:
<?php
/*********************************
RandomLib Version 1.3
Programmed by : Chao Xu(Mgccl)
E-mail : mgcclx@gmail.com
Website : http://mgccl.com
Info : Please email me if there is any feature you want
or there is any bugs. I will fix them as soon as possible.
Change :
1.3
Add the rand() method, it choses which random method to be used
on generate random numbers.
1.2
Add truerand(), get a random number from http://www.random.org
1.1
Add some BC functions and the power of generate
very large random numbers
ToDo :Optimize BCrand speed, chose the random handler
*********************************/
class random{
var $data = array();
var $rand_op = 'rand';
function rand($min = 0, $max = 1, $amount = 1){
if($this->rand_op=='rand'){
if($amount == 1){
return rand($min, $max);
}else{
$i = 0;
while($i< $amount){
$rand[] =rand($min, $max);
++$i;
}
return $rand;
}
}elseif($this->rand_op=='mt_rand'){
if($amount == 1){
return mt_rand($min, $max);
}else{
$i = 0;
while($i< $amount){
$rand[] =mt_rand($min, $max);
++$i;
}
return $rand;
}
}elseif($this->rand_op=='truerand'){
return $this->truerand($min, $max, $amount);
}
}
function add($string,$weight=1){
$this->data[] = array('s' => $string, 'w' => $weight);
}
function optimize(){
foreach($this->data as $var){
if($new[$var['s']]){
$new[$var['s']] += $var['w'];
}else{
$new[$var['s']] = $var['w'];
}
}
unset($this->data);
foreach($new as $key=>$var){
$this->data[] = array('s' => $key, 'w' => $var);
}
}
function select($amount=1){
if($amount == 1){
$rand = array_rand($this->data);
$result = $this->data[$rand]['s'];
}else{
$i = 0;
while($i<$amount){
$result[] = $this->data[array_rand($this->data)]['s'];
++$i;
}
}
return $result;
}
function select_unique($amount=1){
if($amount == 1){
$rand = array_rand($this->data);
$result = $this->data[$rand]['s'];
}else{
$rand = array_rand($this->data, $amount);
foreach($rand as $var){
$result[] = $this->data[$var]['s'];
}
}
return $result;
}
function select_weighted($amount=1){
$count = count($this->data);
$i = 0;
$max = -1;
while($i < $count){
$max += $this->data[$i]['w'];
++$i;
}
if(1 == $amount){
$rand = $this->rand(0, $max);
$w = 0; $n = 0;
while($w <= $rand){
$w += $this->data[$n]['w'];
++$n;
}
$key = $this->data[$n-1]['s'];
}else{
$i = 0;
while($i<$amount){
$random[] = $this->rand(0, $max);
++$i;
}
sort($random);
$i = 0;
$n = 0;
$w = 0;
while($i<$amount){
while($w<=$random[$i]){
$w += $this->data[$n]['w'];
++$n;
}
$key[] = $this->data[$n-1]['s'];
++$i;
}
}
return $key;
}
function bc_select_weighted($amount=1){
$count = count($this->data);
$i = 0;
$max = -1;
while($i < $count){
$max = bcadd($this->data[$i]['w'],$max);
++$i;
}
if(1 == $amount){
$rand = $this->bcrand(0, $max);
$w = 0; $n = 0;
while(bccomp($w,$rand) == 0||bccomp($w,$rand)== -1){
$w = bcadd($this->data[$n]['w'],$w);
++$n;
}
$key = $this->data[$n-1]['s'];
}else{
$i = 0;
while($i<$amount){
$random[] = $this->bcrand(0, $max);
++$i;
}
natsort($random);
$i = 0;
$n = 0;
$w = 0;
while($i<$amount){
while(bccomp($w,$random[$i]) == 0||bccomp($w,$random[$i])== -1){
$w = bcadd($this->data[$n]['w'],$w);
++$n;
}
$key[] = $this->data[$n-1]['s'];
++$i;
}
}
return $key;
}
function select_weighted_unique($amount=1){
if($amount == 1){
return $this->select_weighted(1);
}
$count = count($this->data);
$i = 0;
if($amount >= $count){
while($i < $count){
$return[] = $this->data[$i]['s'];
++$i;
}
return $return;
}else{
$max = -1;
while($i < $count){
$max += $this->data[$i]['w'];
++$i;
}
$i = 0;
while($i < $amount){
$max -= $sub;
$w = 0;
$n = 0;
$num = $this->rand(0,$max);
while($w <= $num){
$w += $this->data[$n]['w'];
++$n;
}
$sub = $this->data[$n-1]['w'];
$key[] = $this->data[$n-1]['s'];
array_splice($this->data, $n-1, 1);
++$i;
}
return $key;
}
}
function bc_select_weighted_unique($amount=1){
if($amount == 1){
return $this->bc_select_weighted(1);
}
$count = count($this->data);
$i = 0;
if($amount >= $count){
while($i < $count){
$return[] = $this->data[$i]['s'];
++$i;
}
return $return;
}else{
$max = -1;
while($i < $count){
$max = bcadd($this->data[$i]['w'],$max);
++$i;
}
$i = 0;
while($i < $amount){
$max = bcsub($max,$sub);
$w = 0;
$n = 0;
$num = $this->bcrand(0,$max);
//BCCOMP!!!!!!
while(bccomp($w,$num) == 0 || bccomp($w,$num) == -1){
$w = bcadd($this->data[$n]['w'],$w);
++$n;
}
$sub = $this->data[$n-1]['w'];
$key[] = $this->data[$n-1]['s'];
array_splice($this->data, $n-1, 1);
++$i;
}
return $key;
}
}
function bcrand($min, $max){
bcscale(0);
if(bccomp($max,$min)!=1){
return 0;
}
$top = bcsub($max,$min);
$rand = bcadd($top, 1);
$length = strlen($top);
$n = 0;
while(9*$n <= $length){
if($length - 9*$n >= 9){
$rand_part[] = $this->rand(0,999999999);
}else{
$j = 0; $foo = '';
while($j < $length-9*$n){
$foo .= '9';
++$j;
}
$foo += 0;
$rand_part[] = $this->rand(0,$foo);
}
++$n;
}
$i = 0;
$rand ='';
$count = count($rand_part);
while($i < $count){
$rand .= $rand_part[$i];
++$i;
}
while(bccomp($rand,$top)==1){
$rand = substr($rand,1,strlen($rand)).$this->rand(0,9);
}
return bcadd($rand,$min);
}
function truerand($min, $max, $amount=1){
if($amount == 1){
$fp = fopen("http://www.random.org/cgi-bin/randnum?num="
.$amount."&min="."$min"."&max="."$max"."&col=1", "r");
$num = fread($fp, 4096*$amount);
fclose($fp);
return $num;
}else{
if($amount > 10000){
return false;
}
$fp = fopen("http://www.random.org/cgi-bin/randnum?num="
.$amount."&min="."$min"."&max="."$max"."&col=1", "r");
$num = fread($fp, 4096*$amount);
fclose($fp);
$num = explode("\n", $num);
unset($num[count($num)-1]);
return $num;
}
}
}
?>
Please download and see the example:
RandomLib Class Version 1.3(PHP Classes Hosted)
RandomLib Class Version 1.0(This site)
RandomLib in hotscripts.com:

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