CFLib.org – Common Function Library Project

Description:
Returns a first name from an internal list of 100. Stupidly simple, but very handy for filling test datasets. Names were taken from Facebooks top 100

Return Values:
Returns a string.

Example:

<cfoutput>#randomfirstName()#</cfoutput>

Parameters:

No arguments.

Full UDF Source:

<!---
 Returns a random first name.
 
 @return Returns a string. 
 @author Matt Casey (matt@digitalhappy.com) 
 @version 1, June 22, 2010 
--->
<cffunction name="randomFirstName" output="false" access="public" returntype="any" hint="">
    <cfset var names = "Adam,Ahmed,Alex,Ali,Amanda,Amy,Andrea,Andrew,Andy,Angela,Anna,Anne,Anthony,Antonio,Ashley,Barbara,Ben,Bill,Bob,Brian,Carlos,Carol,Chris,Christian,Christine,Cindy,Claudia,Dan,Daniel,Dave,David,Debbie,Elizabeth,Eric,Gary,George,Heather,Jack,James,Jason,Jean,Jeff,Jennifer,Jessica,Jim,Joe,John,Jonathan,Jose,Juan,Julie,Karen,Kelly,Kevin,Kim,Laura,Linda,Lisa,Luis,Marco,Maria,Marie,Mark,Martin,Mary,Matt,Matthew,Melissa,Michael,Michelle,Mike,Mohamed,Monica,Nancy,Nick,Nicole,Patricia,Patrick,Paul,Peter,Rachel,Richard,Robert,Ryan,Sam,Sandra,Sara,Sarah,Scott,Sharon,Stephanie,Stephen,Steve,Steven,Susan,Thomas,Tim,Tom,Tony,William" />
    <cfreturn listGetAt(names, randRange(1,100)) />
</cffunction>