On 7/6/08, Ron Piggott <ron.php@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>
> I am trying to scramble individual words and/or phrases.
>
> When it is a phrase I would like to keep the letters of each word
> together, with a space between each one. The code I have so far is
> below. I use PHP 4.4.7. The code below is fine for a single word; it
> is phrases that I am now trying to accommodate.
>
>
> An example:
>
> rise and shine
>
> Desired output:
>
> I S R E N A D E H I S N
>
> Thanks for your help,
>
> Ron
>
>
>
> $keyword might be
>
> $keyword = str_shuffle(strtoupper($keyword));
>
> $buffer = "";
>
> for ($count = 0; ($count < strlen($keyword)); $count++) $buffer .=
> $keyword{$count}." ";
>
> $keyword = trim($buffer);
>
> unset($buffer);
Once the individual words have had their letters shuffled, explode the
sentence on a space, then use the shuffle function (
http://us3.php.net/manual/en/function.shuffle.php) to, um, shuffle the
array.
David
