php, how to jumble / randomize order of associative array while keeping key/value pairs

Question

what is the php function to randomize the associative array while keeping key/values pairs. I don\'t mean to just randomly pick out a key value pair, but actually changing the

Answer 1

You could use shuffle() on array_keys, then loop around your array adding them to the list in the new order.

E.g.

$shuffleKeys = array_keys($array);
shuffle($shuffleKeys);
$newArray = array();
foreach($shuffleKeys as $key) {
    $newArray[$key] = $array[$key];
}