On 7/6/08, Ron Piggott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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