Thread: How to generate random name from list ?

Hi

we've got a lists of names and we want to automatically randomly display one of the names each time a web page is accessed.

at the moment we cut and paste from the word doc and insert the name in the page for the day but we want to make it automatic so that each time a visitor access that page one of the names is dislayed.

There are not many names in each list - about 50 so I can put them in a spreadsheet or whatever but we do want to add or edit the list in the future.

Any ideas of the easiest way to do this would be appreciated.


thanks

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