Sorting an array to even it out

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School project. You have 3 buckets that hold apples (they are arrays, dont ask why they are called apples. The buckts are arrays to, so they are arrays of arrays). They can only hold 15 each. You need to add more apples, but you first need to even out the buckets so that one doesn't over flow before any of the others.

<?php
$bucket[0]['apples'] = array(0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7);   // 8 apples
$bucket[1]['apples'] = array(0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8); // 9 apples
$bucket[2]['apples'] = array(0,1,2,3);           // 4 apples
// 21 total apples in 3 buckets, but not distributed evenly

// How can you even them out, such as?
$bucket[0]['apples'] = array(0,1,2,3,4,5,6); // 7 apples, 8 -1
$bucket[1]['apples'] = array(0,1,2,3,4,5,6); // 7 apples, 9 -2
$bucket[2]['apples'] = array(0,1,2,3,4,5,6); // 7 apples, 4 +3

// 21 total apples, evenly distributed
?>

I have to actually move the objects, since IRL the apples would would represent an array of values. I can tell it would take push() and pop(), but I can't wrap my brain around looping through it. Can anybody give me some clues?

Thanks

[Weedpacket]

I'd put them all in one array and then use [man]array_chunk[/man] to separate them again.

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Weedpacket;11020541 wrote:

I'd put them all in one array and then use [man]array_chunk[/man] to separate them again.

You know, that's awesome LOL. I thought I would have to walk through the whole array, pushing and poping until everything was even. Thanks!

[Ashley_Sheridan]

Something tells me that if this is a class assignment, then the solution your teacher would be looking for would be one that has you walk through the arrays. You say that the buckets need to be even, but does that mean you have to even the buckets out before adding new apples, or do you have to distribute the new apples evenly so that by the end the difference between buckets will only be by at most 1 apple?

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It worked out alright. Thanks