I have a nested assocative array which might look something like this:
$myarray = array(
['tiger'] => array(
['people'], ['apes'], ['birds']
),
['eagle'] => array(
['rodents'] => array(['mice'], ['squirrel'])
),
['shark'] => ['seals']
);
How can I loop through the first layer (tiger, eagle, shark) in a random order and ensure that I cover them all in my loop? I was looking at the PHP function shuffle();, but I think that function messes up the whole array by shuffling all layers.
You can randomly sort an array like this, it will keep the keys and the values
<?php
$myarray = array(
'tiger' => array(
'people', 'apes', 'birds'
),
'eagle' => array(
'rodents' => array('mice', 'squirrel')
),
'shark' => 'seals'
);
$shuffleKeys = array_keys($myarray);
shuffle($shuffleKeys);
$newArray = array();
foreach($shuffleKeys as $key) {
$newArray[$key] = $myarray[$key];
}
print_r($newArray);
You can get the keys using array_keys()
. Then you can shuffle the resulting key array using shuffle()
and iterate through it.
Example:
$keys = array_keys($myarray);
shuffle($keys);
foreach ($keys as $key) {
var_dump($myarray[$key]);
}
According to my test, shuffle only randomizes 1 layer. try it yourself:
<?php
$test = array(
array(1,2,3,4,5),
array('a','b','c','d','e'),
array('one','two','three','four','five')
);
shuffle($test);
var_dump($test);
?>
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