O'Reilly のPHP Cookbook のセクション 4.26に順列のサンプル関数があります。固定サイズの順列のみを作成しますが、必要に応じて任意のサイズを処理するためにループで使用できます。
コード
function pc_next_permutation($p, $size) {
// slide down the array looking for where we're smaller than the next guy
for ($i = $size - 1; $p[$i] >= $p[$i+1]; --$i) { }
// if this doesn't occur, we've finished our permutations
// the array is reversed: (1, 2, 3, 4) => (4, 3, 2, 1)
if ($i == -1) { return false; }
// slide down the array looking for a bigger number than what we found before
for ($j = $size; $p[$j] <= $p[$i]; --$j) { }
// swap them
$tmp = $p[$i]; $p[$i] = $p[$j]; $p[$j] = $tmp;
// now reverse the elements in between by swapping the ends
for (++$i, $j = $size; $i < $j; ++$i, --$j) {
$tmp = $p[$i]; $p[$i] = $p[$j]; $p[$j] = $tmp;
}
return $p;
}
$set = explode(' ', 'a b c');
// $all will contain the final output
$all = $set;
while(count($set) > 1) {
$perms = array();
$size = count($set) - 1;
$perm = range(0, $size);
$j = 0;
do {
foreach ($perm as $i) { $perms[$j][] = $set[$i]; }
} while ($perm = pc_next_permutation($perm, $size) and ++$j);
foreach ($perms as $p) {
$all[] = implode(' ', $p);
}
array_pop($set);
}
// display results
foreach($all as $each) {
echo $each . "\n";
}
出力
a
b
c
a b c
a c b
b a c
b c a
c a b
c b a
a b
b a
実際の例