Random Order

How would you make a randomizer where you pick 6 words and it randomizes them in order so that no word is repeated?

$words = array(
'PHP',
'is',
'the',
'greatest',
'thing',
'yet'
);

shuffle($words);
echo implode(' ', $words);

Thanks a bunch.

$words = array("elephant","yak","dog","cat","sheep","spookster");
$random = array_rand($words, 6);
for($i=0;$i<6;$i++){
echo $words[$random[$i]];
}

Something like that

It is better to use the most logical function, as it makes your code easier to read.

array_rand() is used to pick a few random elements from an array. It can be used to shuffle (!) the array but the manual does not state that the elements will be returned in a randomized order. Only that a random element be picked.

Neither of those worked...

Show the code that you tried it with. So that we can see what the problem is. There's no reason that those functions should not have worked.

Does anyone know how to do this?

The 2 examples shown above WILL do this. You've done something wrong, but we cannot say what you've done wrong until you show your code

Well, I tried both within PHP tags and both showed blank pages.

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code.....

<?php
$words = array("elephant","yak","dog","cat","sheep","spookster");
$random = array_rand($words, 6);
for($i=0;$i<6;$i++){
echo $words[$random[$i]];
}
?php>

<?php
$words = array("elephant","yak","dog","cat","sheep","spookster");
$random = array_rand($words, 6);
for($i=0;$i<6;$i++){
echo $words[$random[$i]];
}
?>


The closing of php is ?> not ?php>

If you posted the code several posts ago like you was asked, you could've gotten the answer much quicker.

Also, next time you have a problem, it'll help to show the error. You should've got something similar to

Parse error: parse error, unexpected '?' in var/www/test.php on line 7

Tested devinemke's solution and it works.