Multiple words str_shuffle

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);

On 7/6/08, Ron Piggott <ron.php@actsministries.org> 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

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 &nbsp; so it will echo and be obvious that there are two
spaces between words.
$scramble_phrase = implode('&nbsp;&nbsp;',$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

On Sun, Jul 6, 2008 at 8:04 PM, Brady Mitchell <mydarb@gmail.com> 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 &nbsp; so it will echo and be obvious that there are two spaces
> between words.
> $scramble_phrase = implode('&nbsp;&nbsp;',$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

grrr ... I rear my ugly head, briefly ...

Ron Piggott schreef:
> I am trying to scramble individual words and/or phrases.

try harder.

<?php

function mixit($m) {
return trim(chunk_split(str_shuffle(strtoupper($m[1])),1,' '));
}

echo preg_replace_callback('#(\w+)#', 'mixit', 'The rain. in Spain falls, mainly "on" the plain!');

?>

have integrity, read these before you copy, paste 'n' use:


http://php.net/chunk_split
http://php.net/preg_replace_callback


questions on a postcard to Dan Brown, he just got married, he deserves it ;-)

Jochem Maas schreef:

</snip>

this is a little better:

<?php

// $argv[1] is the first script argument on the CLI
$phrase = isset($argv[1]) && is_string($argv[1]) ? $argv[1] : 'The rain. in Spain falls, mainly "on" the plain!';
$phrase = preg_replace_callback('#(\w+)#', 'mixit', str_replace(" ", " ", $phrase));

function mixit($m)
{
return trim(chunk_split(str_shuffle(strtoupper($m[1])),1,' '));
}

On Mon, Jul 7, 2008 at 10:44 PM, Jochem Maas <jochem@iamjochem.com> wrote:
> grrr ... I rear my ugly head, briefly ...
[snip!]
>
> questions on a postcard to Dan Brown, he just got married, he deserves it
> ;-)

Welcome back, brother. Thanks for the well-wishes. I hope you
and your son are doing well!

--
</Daniel P. Brown>
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