PHP Random Shuffle Array Maintaining Key => Value

Question

I\'ve been looking on google for the answer but can\'t seem to find something fool-proof and cant really afford to mess this up (going live into a production site).

Answer 1

The first user post under the shuffle documentation:

Shuffle associative and non-associative array while preserving key, value pairs. Also returns the shuffled array instead of shuffling it in place.

function shuffle_assoc($list) { 
  if (!is_array($list)) return $list; 

  $keys = array_keys($list); 
  shuffle($keys); 
  $random = array(); 
  foreach ($keys as $key) { 
    $random[$key] = $list[$key]; 
  }
  return $random; 
} 

Test case:

$arr = array();
$arr[] = array('id' => 5, 'foo' => 'hello');
$arr[] = array('id' => 7, 'foo' => 'byebye');
$arr[] = array('id' => 9, 'foo' => 'foo');
print_r(shuffle_assoc($arr));
print_r(shuffle_assoc($arr));
print_r(shuffle_assoc($arr));