Description:
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From manual page: http://www.php.net/function.array-rand
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Function array_rand does not choose random value. In documentation there is info that there's no need to use srand or mt_srand any more. In fact using srand function before launching randTest function (in test script) solve this issue. However using mt_srand function (both with and without seed) doesn't solve this issue

Test script:
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<?php
    $letters = array('a','b','c','d','e','f','g','h');
    $array = array();    
    // mt_rand used just for filling array, it may be filled manually if neccessary
    for ($i=0; $i< 200; ++$i) {
        $array[] = $letters[mt_rand(0,count($letters)-1)];                
    }    
    for ($i=0; $i< 10000; ++$i) {
        echo randTest($array)."<br />";                
    }    
    function randTest($array) {    
        $out = array();        
        while (count($array) > 0) {
            $index = array_rand($array,1);
            $out[] = $array[$index];
            unset($array[$index]);                        
        }        
        return implode('', $out);
    }

Expected result:
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All lines should be random or at least no visible pattern of repetition should be possible to find

Actual result:
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It repeats its results in test script each 14 times. I mean in output line 1 is the same as line 14, line 2 is the same as line 15, line 3 is the same as line 16 so it means it is not random at all.