On Sun, Jul 6, 2008 at 8:04 PM, Brady Mitchell <mydarb@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Jul 6, 2008, at 305PM, Ron Piggott 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.
>
> $orig_phrase = 'rise and shine';
>
> // Split the phrase into an array with each word as an element
> $array_phrase = explode(' ',$orig_phrase);
>
> // Cycle through the array processing one word at a tie
> foreach($array_phrase as $key => $value)
> {
> // $orig_value is used in the do while loop to ensure that the
> "shuffled" string is not the original string.
> $orig_value = $value;
>
> // Shuffle the string, and continue to do so until the returned
> string is not the original string
> do{
> $value = str_shuffle($value);
> } while($value == $orig_value);
>
> // Uppercase value
> $value = strtoupper($value);
>
> // Insert a space after every letter
> $value = chunk_split($value,1,' ');
>
> // Set array value to newly formatted version
> $array_phrase[$key] = $value;
> }
>
> // I'm using so it will echo and be obvious that there are two spaces
> between words.
> $scramble_phrase = implode(' ',$array_phrase);
>
> echo $orig_phrase;
> echo '<br />';
> echo $scramble_phrase;
>
> Everything after the do...while loop can be easily combined into one line; I
> left it as separate lines for clarity.
>
> Brady
Why not something like this?
<?php
$phrase = 'The rain in Spain falls mainly on the plain';
$words = split(' ', $phrase);
array_walk($words, 'str_shuffle');
echo join(' ', $words);
?>
Andrew
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