Re: rand() function not working right

youre not the only one .. i just installed 4.3.3 and $x = rand(1,173); always returns 101 for $x i changed to mt_rand(1,173); and that always returns 142 ??? weirdness .. dont tell me this is happening to only me? ----- Original Message ----- From: <ldg@ulysium.net> To: "php general list" <php-general@lists.php.net> Sent: Thursday, May 29, 2003 4:29 AM Subject: [PHP] rand() function not working right > I'm using the latest php and the rand() function isn't working properly when > giving it any min and max arguments. > It does work without anything between the () but if I put a min and max, > then only the min value always gets chosen. > > Is that a bug? Is that new? > > I'm not using an old php version, and it makes no difference to seed or not. > I've switched to mt_rand() and it seems to work fine with min/max so far.. > > -- > Didier Godefroy > mailto:dg@ulysium.net > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php >