The rewritten title is: Translate "Php merges two codes (random + length)" into Chinese

Question

I need your help to make this work. I need to combine two php codes to work. I am a beginner in php and thank you very much for every advice you can give me. Thank you in advance!

Description: I want to display content (some text) from 8 pages in my index.php and display the obtained content in random order. I didn't know how to choose where to start retrieving the text data for the page, so I chose the character option (starts after 1305 characters, counting 375 characters).

Code 1 (Select 8 pages and display them in random order)

<?php
$files = [
"folder/content1.php",
"folder/content2.php",
"folder/content3.php",
"folder/content4.php",
"folder/content5.php",
"folder/content6.php",
"folder/content7.php",
"folder/content8.php"
];
 shuffle($files);
foreach ($files as $key => $file) { require($file); }
?>

Code 2 (get content from the page, starting from the 1305th character, only display 375 characters)

<?php $section1 = file_get_contents("folder/content1.php", FALSE, NULL, 1305, 375); echo $section1; ?> </p>
<?php $section2 = file_get_contents("folder/content2.php", FALSE, NULL, 1305, 375); echo $section3; ?> </p>
<?php $section3 = file_get_contents("folder/content3.php", FALSE, NULL, 1305, 375); echo $section3; ?> </p>
<?php $section4 = file_get_contents("folder/content4.php", FALSE, NULL, 1305, 375); echo $section4; ?> </p>
<?php $section5 = file_get_contents("folder/content5.php", FALSE, NULL, 1305, 375); echo $section5; ?> </p>
<?php $section6 = file_get_contents("folder/content6.php", FALSE, NULL, 1305, 375); echo $section6; ?> </p>
<?php $section7 = file_get_contents("folder/content7.php", FALSE, NULL, 1305, 375); echo $section7; ?> </p>
<?php $section8 = file_get_contents("folder/content8.php", FALSE, NULL, 1305, 375); echo $section8; ?> </p>

My merge code doesn't work

<?php
$files = [
"folder/content1.php",
"folder/content2.php",
"folder/content3.php",
"folder/content4.php",
"folder/content5.php",
"folder/content6.php",
"folder/content7.php",
"folder/content8.php"
 ];
 shuffle($files);
foreach ($files as $key => $file) file_get_contents("$files", FALSE, NULL, 1305, 375); { require($file); }
?>

Answer 1

It might be easier to understand if you format your code better. Especially the last two lines are probably best written like this:

foreach ($files as $key => $file) {
    file_get_contents("$files", FALSE, NULL, 1305, 375);
}

require($file);

Then you can see the problem: the result of calling file_get_contents() is not assigned to any variable, so it just disappears; instead you see the last require() The result of , which passes the last value of $file in the previous foreach loop.

Actually, the call to file_get_contents() looks problematic - the first argument should be a string, but you're passing it the name of an array embedded in the string, which is a bit Weird - I haven't tried it so not sure what to expect.

In my opinion, whenever there is only one statement in a loop, it is better to use curly braces - it makes it easier to avoid errors.