You're looking for the permutations formula:
nPk = n!/(n-k)!
In your case, you have 9 entries and you want to choose all of them, that's 9P9 = 9! = 362880
You can find a PHP algorithm to permutate in recipe 4.26 of O'Reilly's "PHP Cookbook".
pc_permute(array(0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8));
Copied in from O'Reilly:
function pc_permute($items, $perms = array( )) {
if (empty($items)) {
print join(' ', $perms) . "
";
} else {
for ($i = count($items) - 1; $i >= 0; --$i) {
$newitems = $items;
$newperms = $perms;
list($foo) = array_splice($newitems, $i, 1);
array_unshift($newperms, $foo);
pc_permute($newitems, $newperms);
}
}
}
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