Re: similar to shuffle()

I had the same problem... I wrote a function that does this: function scramble(&$array) {

        // scrambles the elements of a one dimentional array
        // written by cblack (cblack@teamgenesis.com)
        // in php3 >= 3.0.8, there's a function called shuffle that does this
        for ($i=0;$i<sizeof($array);$i++)
        {
                // seed random number generator
                srand((double) microtime() * 1000000);

                // store whatever is in $array[$i] in a temp var
                $temp = $array[$i];

                // generate a random number to swap with
                $newvalue = rand(0, sizeof($array));

                // swap values
                $array[$i] = $array[$newvalue];
                $array[$newvalue] = $temp;
        }

        return 1;

} Feel free to modify... CB At 02:06 PM 2/1/01 -0500, Jason Jacobs wrote:

Does anyone know of a function in version 3.0.7 that does the same thing to shuffle(), which was implemented in 3.0.8? I'm trying to run a banner script I found, and I guess we were 1 one-hundredth of a version off for this thing... Or, how painless is it to upgrade to the latest version? I'm assuming that PHP is backwards compatible... Thanks. Jason -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net