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rockinaway

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I was thinking the same as Pikachu2000.

 

Basically, if I have $array1. And it has 5 values.

 

I want to loop through these values in a RANDOM order but retain their order in $array1.

 

So as Pikachu2000 stated, making a copy of the array to say $array2, shuffling it and then looping through it (not necessarily echoing anything) would work as then I can return to $array1 with everything preserved in the correct order.

 

I just want to know if there is a simpler way..

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I was thinking the same as Pikachu2000.

 

Basically, if I have $array1. And it has 5 values.

 

I want to loop through these values in a RANDOM order but retain their order in $array1.

 

So as Pikachu2000 stated, making a copy of the array to say $array2, shuffling it and then looping through it (not necessarily echoing anything) would work as then I can return to $array1 with everything preserved in the correct order.

 

I just want to know if there is a simpler way..

there are other ways to do it, but as far as simplicity is concerned, the example that Pikachu2000 provided is what you want

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