Thanks. It doesn't need to be completely random, just, more random than
"1". The occasional 3 would be enough for me.
And,t hank you very very much. You forgot the quotes around the U, btw.
*huggss*
----- Original Message -----
From: "Robert Collins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "'April'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "PHP General"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, January 26, 2001 2:58 PM
Subject: RE: [PHP] rand(), mt_rand(), and my inability to make either of
them random.
> this is a function that I wrote to solve this problem, but it is almost
> impossible to get a truly random number you can get somthing pretty close
by
> seeding with somthing like the time function, using the seconds since
epoch
> and this should be hard to duplicate.
>
> <?php
> function random_number($config, $lownum, $highnum){
>
> $time = date(U);
> $seed = srand($time);
> $rand = rand($lownum, $highnum);
>
> echo "<FONT FACE=\"$fontstyle\" SIZE=\"$fontsize\"
> COLOR=\"$fontcolor\">$rand</FONT>";
>
> $lownum = "1";
> $highnum = "100";
> random_number("config.inc.php", $lownum, $highnum);
>
> }
> ?>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: April [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Friday, January 26, 2001 1:50 PM
> To: PHP General
> Subject: [PHP] rand(), mt_rand(), and my inability to make either of
> them random.
>
>
> 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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