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Random Greeting in PHP

Note: This post refers to code and a project from many years ago 😱. The content was edited in March of 2025 to remove dead links, improve clarity, or fix formatting, but no other edits were made. Enjoy this time capsule into the past.

I was searching for a php list of greetings but couldn’t find one so I made my own. Thought this may be helpful to someone else looking for a list. Here is how to show a random greeting in php. Much like the flickr welcome page.


//random array function you can use or write your own
function randomArrayVar($array)
{
if (!is_array($array)){
return $array;
}
return $array[array_rand($array)];
}

//list of grettings as arary

$greeting= array(
&quot;aloha&quot;=&gt;&quot;Aloha&quot;,
&quot;ahoy&quot;=&gt;&quot;Ahoy&quot;,
&quot;bonjour&quot;=&gt;&quot;Bonjour&quot;,
&quot;gday&quot;=&gt;&quot;G'day&quot;,
&quot;hello&quot;=&gt;&quot;Hello&quot;,
&quot;hey&quot;=&gt;&quot;Hey&quot;,
&quot;hi&quot;=&gt;&quot;Hi&quot;,
&quot;hola&quot;=&gt;&quot;Hola&quot;,
&quot;howdy&quot;=&gt;&quot;Howdy&quot;,
&quot;rawr&quot;=&gt;&quot;Rawr&quot;,
&quot;salutations&quot;=&gt;&quot;Salutations&quot;,
&quot;sup&quot;=&gt;&quot;Sup&quot;,
&quot;whatsup&quot;=&gt;&quot;What's up&quot;,
&quot;yo&quot;=&gt;&quot;Yo&quot;);

//echo greeting
echo (randomArrayVar($greeting));

Hope it’s helpful to someone. If you have an additions please leave them in the comments below.

Brooke.