note 6076 modified in function.shuffle by irc-html
| From: | irc-html@php.net | Date: | Sat, 19 Jan 2002 22:10:20 +0000 |
| Subject: | note 6076 modified in function.shuffle by irc-html | ||
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Shuffle doesn't work very well. Especially if you're shuffling mySQL rows...use rand()
instead, like:
$num = rand(0,count($rows)-1);
$row = $rows[$num];
Hope this helps..took me a while to debug it and figure out that shuffle favors some numbers over
others...
--was--
Shuffle doesn't work very well. Especially if you're shuffling mySQL rows...use rand()
instead, like:
<pre>
$num = rand(0,count($rows)-1);
$row = $rows[$num];
</pre>
Hope this helps..took me a while to debug it and figure out that shuffle favors some numbers over
others...
http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.shuffle.php