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if you're a bit more of a purist about your random values, try the following algortithm. note: for reasons that should be obvious, this is only useful if you're using the array like a stack or a queue (ie; it's indexed, and the actual value of the indices don't matter), but for me this seems to be most of the time. <? mt_srand((double)microtime()*1000000); $bob=array_flip($bob); while (list($key,$val)=each($bob)) { $bob[$key]=mt_rand(); } $bob=array_flip($bob); #we now have an array with highly random indices ksort($bob); ?>