Hi April,
You need to plant seeds to reach this goal, it discusses this in manual
under rand() and mt_rand() so have a look here :
http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.rand.php
Which links to and talks about srand :
http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.srand.php
A seedless rand() is essentially useless. Examples exist in the above,
check out the user comments.
Philip
On Fri, 26 Jan 2001, April wrote:
> I have this scriptlet:
>
> $items = 6;
> $randnum = rand(1,$items);
> echo $randnum . "<br><br>";
>
> Always, no matter how many times I hit refresh, it'll always return the
> lowest possible value, in this case 1. If I have rand(4,$items), it returns
> four.
>
> So I tried mt_rand(), with this:
>
> $items = 6;
> $randnum = mt_rand(1,$items);
> echo $randnum . "<br><br>";
>
> This always, without fail, returns the highest possible value. 6 in this
> case.
>
> I'm using Apache/4.0.3pl1 on Windows 2000, locally, just to develop. Could
> this be a cache type problem? Could the gods be conspiring to drive me
> steadily insane?
>
> April
>
>
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