Re: Trying to create an encryption method

John Meyer wrote:

for ($i=1;$i<=26;$i++) {

            $normalAlphabet[$i] = chr($i);
        }
        //now, to shuffle

        for ($j=1;$j<=26;$j++) {
            do {
            $k = rand(1,26);
            } while ($k == $j || (strlen(trim($normalAlphabet[$k])) === 0));
            $arEncryptedAlphabet[$j] = $normalAlphabet[$k];
            $normalAlphabet[$k] = "";
        }
        $arNormalString = str_split($normalzedString);
        $encryptedString = "";
        for ($i=0;$i<count($arNormalString);$i++) {
            if (ord($arNormalString[$i])>=65 &&

ord($arNormalString[$i])<=90) {

                $encryptedString = $encryptedString .

$arEncryptedAlphabet[ord($arNormalString[$i]) - 64];

            } else {
                $encryptedString = $encryptedString . $arNormalString[$i];
            }
        }
        return $encryptedString;
    }

Both the inner loop and the outer loop are using $i, meaning the outer loop will never end since it gets reset in the inner loop. -Stut