Question

I have this example of an array of objects and I need to randomize it each time I do a foreach loop.

Looks like shuffle works only on arrays.

One thing is that I cant convert this into an array, because then it will become a STD object which I can’t use, because of the way my mapper works.

array(48) {
  [0] => object(Friends_Model_Friends)#142 (4) {
    ["_id":protected] => NULL
    ["_tal":protected] => object(stdClass)#194 (3) {
      ["thumb"] => object(stdClass)#196 (6) {
        ["id"] => string(8) "10884697"
        ["type"] => string(1) "2"
        ["gallery"] => string(1) "1"
      }
    }
    ["_friend":protected] => string(7) "3492149"
    ["_dependent_table":protected] => NULL
  }
  [1] => object(Friends_Model_Friends)#195 (4) {
    ["_id":protected] => NULL
    ["_tal":protected] => object(stdClass)#143 (3) {
      ["thumb"] => object(stdClass)#202 (6) {
        ["id"] => string(8) "11160632"
        ["type"] => string(1) "2"
        ["gallery"] => string(1) "1"
      }
    }
    ["_friend":protected] => string(7) "3301541"
    ["_dependent_table":protected] => NULL
  }
....

Any ideas on shuffling this?

edit: Zend_Debug::dump(shuffle($object)); returns bool(true)

Answer 1

But the objects are in an array, not another object so you can use shuffle…