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PHP

Posted by Manish Barik
Manish Barik
Courses Plus Student 4,058 Points

What is the major difference between rand and shuffle?

I am confused. When do you need a rand over shuffle?

1 Answer

rhysadams
rhysadams
4,847 Points
rhysadams
rhysadams
4,847 Points

Hey Manish!

Rand is used for generating a random Integer. Shuffle is used to shuffle an array.

If you want to read more on these please visit the PHP documentation.

http://php.net/manual/en/function.shuffle.php http://php.net/manual/en/function.rand.php

Cheers!