get random Twitter follower from your exported followers.js

getRandomFollower.php

<?
	
	// str_replace removes the JS part and makes it into a normal JSON file	
	$followers=json_decode(str_replace('window.YTD.follower.part0 = ','',file_get_contents(__DIR__.'/followers.js')),true);

	echo "\n\n";
	echo number_format(count($followers)).' followers';
	echo "\n\n";


	echo "\n\n";
	echo $followers[mt_array_rand($followers)]['follower']['userLink'];
	echo "\n";
	echo $followers[mt_array_rand($followers)]['follower']['userLink'];
	echo "\n";
	echo $followers[mt_array_rand($followers)]['follower']['userLink'];
	echo "\n";
	echo $followers[mt_array_rand($followers)]['follower']['userLink'];
	echo "\n";
	echo $followers[mt_array_rand($followers)]['follower']['userLink'];
	echo "\n";
	echo $followers[mt_array_rand($followers)]['follower']['userLink'];
	echo "\n";
	echo $followers[mt_array_rand($followers)]['follower']['userLink'];
	echo "\n";
	echo $followers[mt_array_rand($followers)]['follower']['userLink'];
	echo "\n";
	echo $followers[mt_array_rand($followers)]['follower']['userLink'];
	echo "\n";
	echo $followers[mt_array_rand($followers)]['follower']['userLink'];
	echo "\n";
	echo $followers[mt_array_rand($followers)]['follower']['userLink'];
	echo "\n";
	echo $followers[mt_array_rand($followers)]['follower']['userLink'];
	echo "\n";
	echo $followers[mt_array_rand($followers)]['follower']['userLink'];
	echo "\n";
	echo $followers[mt_array_rand($followers)]['follower']['userLink'];
	echo "\n";
	echo $followers[mt_array_rand($followers)]['follower']['userLink'];
	echo "\n";
	echo $followers[mt_array_rand($followers)]['follower']['userLink'];
	echo "\n";
	echo $followers[mt_array_rand($followers)]['follower']['userLink'];
	echo "\n";
	echo $followers[mt_array_rand($followers)]['follower']['userLink'];
	echo "\n";
	echo $followers[mt_array_rand($followers)]['follower']['userLink'];
	echo "\n";
	echo $followers[mt_array_rand($followers)]['follower']['userLink'];
	echo "\n";
	echo $followers[mt_array_rand($followers)]['follower']['userLink'];
	echo "\n";
	echo $followers[mt_array_rand($followers)]['follower']['userLink'];
	echo "\n";
	echo $followers[mt_array_rand($followers)]['follower']['userLink'];
	echo "\n";
	echo $followers[mt_array_rand($followers)]['follower']['userLink'];
	echo "\n";
	echo $followers[mt_array_rand($followers)]['follower']['userLink'];
	echo "\n";
	echo $followers[mt_array_rand($followers)]['follower']['userLink'];
	echo "\n";
	echo $followers[mt_array_rand($followers)]['follower']['userLink'];
	echo "\n";
	echo $followers[mt_array_rand($followers)]['follower']['userLink'];
	echo "\n";


	function mt_array_rand(Array $array, $num = 1) {
	    $count = count($array);
	    if ($num > $count) {
	        return null;
	    }
	    $keys = array_keys($array);
	    $res = [];
	    for ($i = 0; $i < $num;) {
	        $rand = mt_rand(0, $count - 1);
	        if (isset($res[$keys[$rand]])) {
	            continue;
	        }
	        $res[$keys[$rand]] = $i;
	        $i++;
	    }
	    $res = array_flip($res);
	    sort($res);
	    return (count($res) === 1) ? reset($res) : $res;
	}
	
?>

I think it's awesome that you went out of your way to make the giveaway fair to all your followers and went the extra mile to circumvent Twitter's API limitations in order to do so.

That being said, I was just wondering why not use a loop to print it out? Lots of repeat code. But I've done that too, when I'm in a hurry, sometimes hitting ctrl-V a few times is easier than writing a loop or another function.

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