random numbers
| From: | Tamas | Date: | Mon, 11 Nov 2002 23:52:30 +0000 |
| Subject: | random numbers | ||
| Groups: | php.general | ||
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Hi!
I'm using the following method to generate 5 random lottery
numbers:
/* srand is not important since php v>=4.2.0 */
$numbers = range (1,90);
$x = array_rand ($numbers, 5);
foreach ($x as $v) echo "{$numbers[$v]} ";
It works fine, except the first query: php may restart the random
numbers, if it is not used for some seconds. What should i do to
get rid of this problem? I want to use array_rand(), (so I don't
want to use mt_rand) because it's more nice than a complicated
selecting method...
I'm using Apache/1.3.27 (Win32) PHP/4.2.2
Thanks in advance