Programing a Scramble Generator with PHP

[Humble Cuber]

Hi, I am currently trying to make my own speedcubing timer website, I already have the stopwatch design down for the timer itself, but I've been having some trouble with creating a random string generator via PHP for the scrambles the problem is that those different variables are being pushed together, so rather than a normal looking scramble it comes out looking something like this "R22UB2BU2R"
this is the current code I have, if you can please give me some help on how to make each piece of notation a separate variable that would be greatly appreciated.

<?php
function = ranSrtGen(){

}
$result = "";
$chars = "R B U L F D R2 B2 U2 L2 F2 D2";
$charArray = str_split($chars);
for($i = 0; $i < 18; $i++){
$randItem = array_rand($charArray);
$result .= "".$charArray[$randItem];
}
echo $result
?>

 

[xyzzy]

Why PHP and not JavaScript? The timer will be hitting the server for every single scramble generated if you're generating the scrambles on the server.

Also:
1. Try appending a single space (" ") after each move. In the final result, you will have an extraneous space at the end of the scramble, but if it's being thrown into HTML the trailing space doesn't matter.
2. You're missing the anticlockwise moves.
3. Random-move scrambles should be at least 25 moves long.

 

[qwr]

Your biggest flaw is using PHP

 

[Humble Cuber]

Why PHP and not JavaScript? The timer will be hitting the server for every single scramble generated if you're generating the scrambles on the server.

Also:
1. Try appending a single space (" ") after each move. In the final result, you will have an extraneous space at the end of the scramble, but if it's being thrown into HTML the trailing space doesn't matter.
2. You're missing the anticlockwise moves.
3. Random-move scrambles should be at least 25 moves long.

Thanks, Javascript I think could be easier to incorporate as well.

 

[pi³]

Hi, I am currently trying to make my own speedcubing timer website, I already have the stopwatch design down for the timer itself, but I've been having some trouble with creating a random string generator via PHP for the scrambles the problem is that those different variables are being pushed together, so rather than a normal looking scramble it comes out looking something like this "R22UB2BU2R"
this is the current code I have, if you can please give me some help on how to make each piece of notation a separate variable that would be greatly appreciated.

<?php
function = ranSrtGen(){

}
$result = "";
$chars = "R B U L F D R2 B2 U2 L2 F2 D2";
$charArray = str_split($chars);
for($i = 0; $i < 18; $i++){
$randItem = array_rand($charArray);
$result .= "".$charArray[$randItem];
}
echo $result
?>

1. Don't use PHP.
If you really have to use PHP then
2. str_split turns "R2 F2 B2" into array("R","2"," ","F","2"," ","B","2"), which is not what you want. Use

$charArray = explode(" ",$chars);

3. Add a space at the end of each move, so

$result .= " ".$charArray[$randItem];

Live Instance of your scrambler running with improvements

 

[qwr]

this is a stupid criticism of PHP but I can't trust a language that uses explode as a string function. same with "chomp" in perl

 

[abunickabhi]

Good luck with your project.

Do share the github link if you plan to open source your php written scramble generator project, U S U M' U M U' S' M' U' M U' .

 

[Humble Cuber]

Good luck with your project.

Do share the github link if you plan to open source your php written scramble generator project, U S U M' U M U' S' M' U' M U' .

Thanks I definetly will although it seems that I will likely be using JS rather than php.