//	PlayCards & deal		/*	Deal from a random deak of playing cards, using HTML symbols (and colors) for the suits		*/

function PlayCards($x=1,$y=1)	{
	$suits	= array('<b style="color:black" title="Clubs">&clubs;</b>',
			'<b style="color:red" title="Diamonds">&diams;</b>',
			'<b style="color:red" title="Hearts">&hearts;</b>',
			'<b style="color:black" title="Spades">&spades;</b>',
	);
	$vals	= array('A', 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 'J', 'Q', 'K');
	$pack	= array();
	foreach ($vals as $v)	{
		foreach ($suits as $s)
		{	$pack[] = "$s$v";	}
	}
	shuffle ($pack);
	$hands = deal ($pack, $x, $y);  // deal four hands of 5 cards
	foreach ($hands as $cards)	{
		$lcnt=0;
		foreach ($cards as $c)	{
			if ($lcnt++ != 0)	{ echo ", "; }
			echo "$c";
		}
		echo '<br />';
	}
}

function deal (&$pack, $numhands, $cards_per_hand)	{
	$hands = array();
	if ($numhands*$cards_per_hand > 52) return $hands;
	$temp = array_slice ($pack, 0, $numhands*$cards_per_hand);
	$hands = array_chunk($temp, $cards_per_hand);
	return $hands;
}