Problems making matchfixtures

[ikteivi]

Hello!

I'm on a project making a footballleague, but i've been having trouble with making some fixtures.

This is what i have.

I receive some teams from an Array: (there can be more teams than just 4. The number of team is random and up to the user to choose, but i just need some tip.

I need to create a matchfixture with rounds.

$aTeamArray[0]        = 'Manu';
$aTeamArray[1]         = 'Liverpool';
$aTeamArray[2]        = 'Newcastle';
$aTeamArray[3]         = 'Bolton';

$iNumberOfRounds = (count($aTeamArray)*2)-2;  //Number of rounds
$iNumberOfMatchesPerRound = count($aTeamArray)/2; //Number of matches each round

In this example, this is the matches that would have been created:

Manu - Liverpool
Manu - Bolton
Manu - Newcastle

Liverpool - Manu
Liverpool - Bolton
Liverpool - Newcastle

Newcastle - Manu
Newcastle - Bolton
Newcastle - Liverpool

Bolton - Manu
Bolton - Liverpool
Bolton - Newcastle

And the final result would look something like this (Wanted result):

Round1:
Manu - Liverpool
Newcastle - Bolton

Round2:
Bolton - Manu
Liverpool - Newcastle

Round3:
Manu - Newcastle
Liverpool - Bolton

Round4:
Bolton - Liverpool
Newcastle - Manu

Round5:
Bolton - Manu
Newcastle - Liverpool

Round6:
Liverpool - Manu
Bolton - Newcastle

I hope you can help me with som solutions or tip.

This is what i tried at first and developed some more code, but i failed 🙁:

foreach($aTeamArray as $home)
{
        foreach($aTeamArray as $team)
        {
                if($home != $team)
                {
                        echo $home.'-'.$team."<br>\n";
                }
        }
        echo "<br>\n";
}

Hope for some good answers and/or solutions 🙂

[roscor]

Not sure if the function rand could be used, the following is an submitted example on The Manual PHP

<?php

function random_letters ($numofletters) {
    if (!isset($numofletters)) $numofletters = 10; // if $numofletters is not specified sets to 10 letters
    $literki = array('A', 'B', 'C', 'D', 'E', 'F', 'G', 'H', 'I', 'J', 'K', 'L', 'M', 'N', 'O', 'P', 'R', 'S', 'T', 'U', 'W');
    $ilosc_literek = count($literki);
    for ($licz = 0; $licz < $numofletters; $licz++) {
    $rand = rand(0, $ilosc_literek-1);
    $vercode = $vercode.$literki[$rand];
    }
}

?>

other learned phpbuilders will perhaps better advise, Ill keep looking anyhow!!

[ikteivi]

well... i had all the matches in an 2 arrays - one homearray and one away array, where the system is like this: home[0] vs away[0] etc...:

Here is the arrays:

home:

    

    [0] => Manu
    [1] => Manu
    [2] => Manu
    [3] => Liverpool
    [4] => Liverpool
    [5] => Liverpool
    [6] => Newcastle
    [7] => Newcastle
    [8] => Newcastle
    [9] => Bolton
    [10] => Bolton
    [11] => Bolton

Away:

    

    [0] => Liverpool
    [1] => Newcastle
    [2] => Bolton
    [3] => Manu
    [4] => Newcastle
    [5] => Bolton
    [6] => Manu
    [7] => Liverpool
    [8] => Bolton
    [9] => Manu
    [10] => Liverpool
    [11] => Newcastle

I have tried to make rounds, and add teams, but i have failed to make it 🙁