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Re: randomly sorting files in php [message #180593 is a reply to message #180578]

Mon, 04 March 2013 10:45

Captain Paralytic
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On Mar 1, 1:49 am, Cal Dershowitz <c...@example.invalid> wrote:
> Hello ng,
>
> I've got a working localhost and a couple php scripts that run so far,
> so I wanted to see what types of things I can do and cannot do. This is
> by no means clear to me to me now.
>
> What I have is a collection of my own music files that I have put in the
> path of where localhost is looking for things; with my default install,
> that is /var/www.
>
> I wrote a bash script to export the files off my mp3 player, because
> neither my gf nor I who bought these things can figure how to make them
> play randomly. Yes we have achieved a certain age, where determination
> makes up for a lot.
>
> $ cat music1.sh
> #!/bin/bash
>
> set -e
> FROM='CCE0-705F'
> DIR='music1'
> mkdir -p $DIR
> cp $FROM/*.wma $DIR/
> cp $FROM/*.mp3 $DIR/
> cd $DIR
> ls -l
> exit 0
> $
>
> So does php have a way to do this that is as simple as it might be in
> perl, for example?
> --
> Cal

Do you know what order the mp3 player uses to decide the order of
play? If for instance it plays in alphabetical order of file name,
then the only way to get them played randomly is to rename them. On
the other hand it could be based on the order in which they are copied
to the device.

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		randomly sorting files in php By: Cal Dershowitz on Fri, 01 March 2013 01:49
		Re: randomly sorting files in php By: Jerry Stuckle on Fri, 01 March 2013 04:45
		Re: randomly sorting files in php By: Cal Dershowitz on Fri, 01 March 2013 06:23
		Re: randomly sorting files in php By: David Robley on Fri, 01 March 2013 06:54
		Re: randomly sorting files in php By: Cal Dershowitz on Mon, 04 March 2013 02:59
		getting perl and php to talk to each other, was Re: randomly sorting files in php By: Cal Dershowitz on Tue, 05 March 2013 09:19
		Re: getting perl and php to talk to each other, was Re: randomly sorting files in php By: M. Strobel on Tue, 05 March 2013 18:43
		Re: getting perl and php to talk to each other, was Re: randomly sorting files in php By: The Natural Philosoph on Tue, 05 March 2013 19:20
		Re: getting perl and php to talk to each other By: Ben Morrow on Tue, 05 March 2013 22:06
		Re: getting perl and php to talk to each other By: Thomas 'PointedEars' on Tue, 05 March 2013 23:20
		Re: getting perl and php to talk to each other By: Ben Morrow on Tue, 05 March 2013 23:59
		Re: getting perl and php to talk to each other By: The Natural Philosoph on Wed, 06 March 2013 01:01
		Re: getting perl and php to talk to each other By: Jerry Stuckle on Wed, 06 March 2013 01:08
		Re: getting perl and php to talk to each other By: Cal Dershowitz on Thu, 07 March 2013 06:37
		Re: getting perl and php to talk to each other By: Ben Morrow on Thu, 07 March 2013 06:57
		Re: getting perl and php to talk to each other By: Cal Dershowitz on Thu, 07 March 2013 08:52
		Re: getting perl and php to talk to each other By: Jerry Stuckle on Thu, 07 March 2013 13:17
		Re: getting perl and php to talk to each other By: Cal Dershowitz on Thu, 14 March 2013 10:41
		Re: getting perl and php to talk to each other By: The Natural Philosoph on Thu, 14 March 2013 11:14
		Re: getting perl and php to talk to each other By: Jerry Stuckle on Thu, 14 March 2013 12:06
		Re: getting perl and php to talk to each other By: Jrgen Exner on Thu, 14 March 2013 11:18
		Re: getting perl and php to talk to each other By: Scott Johnson on Thu, 14 March 2013 12:38
		Re: getting perl and php to talk to each other By: Ben Morrow on Thu, 07 March 2013 14:25
		Re: getting perl and php to talk to each other By: Jerry Stuckle on Thu, 07 March 2013 13:14
		Re: getting perl and php to talk to each other By: Thomas 'PointedEars' on Wed, 06 March 2013 01:08
		Re: getting perl and php to talk to each other By: Cal Dershowitz on Thu, 07 March 2013 06:53
		Re: getting perl and php to talk to each other By: M. Strobel on Thu, 07 March 2013 08:46
		Re: getting perl and php to talk to each other By: David Robley on Thu, 07 March 2013 11:13
		Re: getting perl and php to talk to each other By: Peter H. Coffin on Thu, 07 March 2013 13:32
		Re: getting perl and php to talk to each other By: SwissCheese on Thu, 07 March 2013 11:28
		Re: getting perl and php to talk to each other By: Ben Morrow on Thu, 07 March 2013 14:33
		Re: getting perl and php to talk to each other By: Cal Dershowitz on Thu, 14 March 2013 09:16
		Re: getting perl and php to talk to each other By: Cal Dershowitz on Thu, 14 March 2013 10:28
		Re: getting perl and php to talk to each other By: SwissCheese on Thu, 14 March 2013 10:51
		Re: getting perl and php to talk to each other By: Thomas 'PointedEars' on Mon, 18 March 2013 11:54
		Re: getting perl and php to talk to each other By: SwissCheese on Tue, 19 March 2013 00:23
		Re: getting perl and php to talk to each other By: alexd[1] on Thu, 07 March 2013 19:09
		Re: getting perl and php to talk to each other By: Henry Law on Thu, 07 March 2013 20:09
		Re: getting perl and php to talk to each other By: Cal Dershowitz on Thu, 14 March 2013 09:23
		Re: getting perl and php to talk to each other By: The Natural Philosoph on Thu, 07 March 2013 20:43
		Re: getting perl and php to talk to each other By: Alastair Black on Thu, 07 March 2013 21:47
		Re: getting perl and php to talk to each other By: M. Strobel on Thu, 07 March 2013 22:11
		Re: getting perl and php to talk to each other By: Alastair Black on Thu, 07 March 2013 22:50
		Re: getting perl and php to talk to each other By: Jerry Stuckle on Fri, 08 March 2013 00:45
		Re: getting perl and php to talk to each other By: Cal Dershowitz on Thu, 14 March 2013 09:19
		Re: getting perl and php to talk to each other By: Jerry Stuckle on Thu, 14 March 2013 11:55
		where to put the binaries was Re: getting perl and php to talk to each other By: Cal Dershowitz on Thu, 14 March 2013 10:11
		Re: where to put the binaries was Re: getting perl and php to talk to each other By: The Natural Philosoph on Thu, 14 March 2013 11:12
		Re: where to put the binaries was Re: getting perl and php to talk to each other By: Jerry Stuckle on Thu, 14 March 2013 12:04
		Re: randomly sorting files in php By: Captain Paralytic on Mon, 04 March 2013 10:45
		Re: randomly sorting files in php By: Cal Dershowitz on Thu, 14 March 2013 10:39

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