Question

I have an example that is only to show what I don’t know how to do. When you call the function, it returns either 1 fruit, or if it rolls a 5, then I want the fruits to increment 1 time for each result it rolls and return an array, possibly going into a max recursion of like, 20 if that makes sense! 🙂

function fruitBasket(&$fruit = array()) {
    $dice = rand(1, 5);
    switch($dice) {
        case 1:
            $fruit['watermelon'] = ++$watermelon;
        break;
        case 2:
            $fruit['orange'] = ++$orange;
        break;
        // etc...
        case 5:
            for($i = 1; $i <= rand(1, 5); $i++) {
                fruitBasket($fruit);
            }
        break;
    }
    return $fruit;
}

Answer 1

I’m not sure I understand your question exactly as your description is kind of confusing and I’m unable to add a comment, but from what I do understand:

function fruitBasket(&$fruit = array(), $dice = 0, $depth = 1) {

    if($depth == 20)
    return $fruit;

    $dice = ($dice > 0 ? $dice : rand(1, 5));

    switch($dice) {
        case 1:
            $fruit['watermelon'] += 1;
        break;
        case 2:
            $fruit['orange'] += 1;
        break;
        // etc...
        case 5:
        $depth += 1;

            for($i = 1; $i <= rand(1, 5); $i++) {
                fruitBasket($fruit, $i, $depth);
            }
        break;
    }
    return $fruit;
}