note 93214 added to function.shuffle

I needed a simple function two shuffle a two dimensional array. Please note the second level arrays must be indexed using integers, for example $myarray[0]["Name"] and not $myarray["One"]["Name"]. Here is the function: <?php function twodshuffle($array) { // Get array length $count = count($array); // Create a range of indicies $indi = range(0,$count-1); // Randomize indicies array shuffle($indi); // Initialize new array $newarray = array($count); // Holds current index $i = 0; // Shuffle multidimensional array foreach ($indi as $index) { $newarray[$i] = $array[$index]; $i++; } return $newarray; } ?> Please note it only works on two dimensional arrays. Here is an example: <?php $myarray = array("Google" => array("Name" => "Google", "URL" => "www.google.com", "Usage" => "Googling"), "Yahoo" => array("Name" => "Yahoo", "URL" => "www.yahoo.com", "Usage" => "Yahooing?"), "Ask" => array("Name" => "Ask", "URL" => "www.ask.com", "Usage" => "Asking Jeeves")); print_r(twodshuffle($myarray)); /* And the result is: Array ( [0] => Array ( [Name] => Ask [URL] => www.ask.com [Usage] => Asking Jeeves ) [1] => Array ( [Name] => Google [URL] => www.google.com [Usage] => Googling ) [2] => Array ( [Name] => Yahoo [URL] => www.yahoo.com [Usage] => Yahooing? ) ) */ ?> Hope you find it useful! ---- Server IP: 208.69.120.35 Probable Submitter: 69.142.233.248 ---- Manual Page -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.shuffle.php Edit -- https://master.php.net/note/edit/93214 Del: integrated -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/93214/integrated Del: useless -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/93214/useless Del: bad code -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/93214/bad+code Del: spam -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/93214/spam Del: non-english -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/93214/non-english Del: in docs -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/93214/in+docs Del: other reasons-- https://master.php.net/note/delete/93214 Reject -- https://master.php.net/note/reject/93214 Search -- https://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php