Re: rand(), mt_rand(), and my inability to make either of them random.

Hi April, You need to plant seeds to reach this goal, it discusses this in manual under rand() and mt_rand() so have a look here : http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.rand.php Which links to and talks about srand : http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.srand.php A seedless rand() is essentially useless. Examples exist in the above, check out the user comments. Philip On Fri, 26 Jan 2001, April wrote: > 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 > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net >