You want to assign a series of consecutive integers to an array.
Use range($start, $stop):
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$cards = range(1, 52); |
For increments other than 1, pass an increment to range() as a third argument. So for odd numbers:
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$odd = range(1, 52, 2); |
And for even numbers:
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$even = range(2, 52, 2); |