Re: Re: Generating Numbers from Strings

On Sat, 2003-11-01 at 01:37, John Ryan wrote: > I've a bit of a problem, I want a random keyword pulled from my database. > But I dont want it random all the time. I just want it random to each page. > So I have the filename variable of the page. How do I somehow generate a > 'constant' random number from this string that is constant to each file??? Could you refrase your question? I understand a part of what you are trying to do, but i'm missing the whole picture. On Sat, 2003-11-01 at 03:14, John Ryan wrote: > I've done that, but how do I generate a number out of that that's in a > certain range? mt_rand($start, $end); generates a 'random' number between two given numbers. Filip de Waard