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

Thanks. It doesn't need to be completely random, just, more random than "1". The occasional 3 would be enough for me. And,t hank you very very much. You forgot the quotes around the U, btw. *huggss* ----- Original Message ----- From: "Robert Collins" <rcollins@Insight.com> To: "'April'" <april@farstrider.org>; "PHP General" <php-general@lists.php.net> Sent: Friday, January 26, 2001 2:58 PM Subject: RE: [PHP] rand(), mt_rand(), and my inability to make either of them random. > this is a function that I wrote to solve this problem, but it is almost > impossible to get a truly random number you can get somthing pretty close by > seeding with somthing like the time function, using the seconds since epoch > and this should be hard to duplicate. > > <?php > function random_number($config, $lownum, $highnum){ > > $time = date(U); > $seed = srand($time); > $rand = rand($lownum, $highnum); > > echo "<FONT FACE=\"$fontstyle\" SIZE=\"$fontsize\" > COLOR=\"$fontcolor\">$rand</FONT>"; > > $lownum = "1"; > $highnum = "100"; > random_number("config.inc.php", $lownum, $highnum); > > } > ?> > > -----Original Message----- > From: April [mailto:april@farstrider.org] > Sent: Friday, January 26, 2001 1:50 PM > To: PHP General > Subject: [PHP] rand(), mt_rand(), and my inability to make either of > them random. > > > 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 >