Re: Random - not that random

Hi Dan, You need to call mt_srand() first to seed the random number generator. It's all described here: http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.mt-rand.php Ken * Dan Eskildsen <dan@eskildsen.net> [010517 14:22]: > Newbie alert > > Hi! Here is a piece of coding. It randomly choose between four options to > display on my homepage. The problem is that it doesn't seem to be that > random - rather biased. The last option $message[3] is displayed 9 out of > 10 times. Any suggestions? > > <script language="php"> > > $message[0] = '<a href="index.php3?Page=vogn"><img border="0" > src="images/trolley.jpg"><br>Rengøringsvogne, mopper m.m.</a>'; > $message[1] = '<a href="index.php3?Page=nilfisk"><img > border="0" > src="images/nilfisk.gif"><br>Nilfisk Advance > rengøringsmaskiner</a>'; > $message[2] = '<a href="index.php3?Page=polering"><img > border="0" > src="images/ladder.jpg"><br>Har du set vores > Vinduespudserstiger?</a>'; > $message[3] = '<a href="index.php3?Page=polish"><img > border="0"src="images/logo-bison.gif"><br>Vi importerer selv vore > polisher > fra en af Canadas førende Polishfabrikker.</a>'; > > $number = mt_rand(0,3) ; > print"$message[$number]"; > > </script> > > -- > ================================== > Regards from Denmark, Europe > Please cc your reply to dan@eskildsen.net > ================================== > I haven't lost my mind, I've got it backed up on TAPE somewhere.......