Question

I have an array of filenames gathered from a folder as follows:

$g = glob('uploads/thumbs/*.jpg');

Now, basing on the user choice, the images will be displayed in chronological order with an rsort($g) or shuffled by shuffle($g).

The problem is that the shuffle always returns the same order of the pictures! How can I solve this?

Answer 1

Probably this is some kind of reference problem, try this:

$glob = glob('uploads/thumbs/*.jpg');
$files = clone $glob;
unset($glob);
shuffle($files);
var_dump($files);