Re: I'm a moron. So?

Personally I like to use mt_rand() rather than rand() as it's billed to be faster and more random than plain old rand(). Kind of makes me wonder why they haven't just replaced rand() with mt_rand()... "seed" requires srand() for rand() and mt_srand() for mt_rand(). -- Plutarck Should be working on something... ...but forgot what it was. ""Dddogbruce (@home.com)"" <ddogbruce@home.com> wrote in message news:3AE0F382.9E8588CF@home.com... > Alrighty. I'm baack! Anyways, I seem to be having stupid little > problems, al of which are driving me insane. I'll feel really > stupid when you tell me the problem. A friend told me something about > "seeding" for random() but I didn't find anything on that. > > This is the HTML section... > > <HTML> > <HEAD> > <TITLE>Horse Race v.1</TITLE> > </HEAD> > <BODY> > Welcome to horse racing v.1. This is a simple PHP game where you can > train, race and win money for your animals. Eventually I'll make it a > whole barn with feeding and horses, and costs, age, breeding. So on. > But for now, this is just a simple game.<br><br> > > Enter six names of horses. > <FORM ACTION="horse.php" METHOD="post"> > Name1 : <INPUT TYPE="text" NAME="name1" > size="24"><BR> > Name2 : <INPUT TYPE="text" NAME="name2" > size="24"><BR> > Name3 : <INPUT TYPE="text" NAME="name3" > size="24"><BR> > Name4 : <INPUT TYPE="text" NAME="name4" > size="24"><BR> > Name5 : <INPUT TYPE="text" NAME="name5" > size="24"><BR> > Name6 : <INPUT TYPE="text" NAME="name6" > size="24"><BR> > <input type="submit" name="submitNms" value="race them!"> > </FORM> > <center>Good luck! > </BODY> > </HTML> > > ---------------- > > This is the PHP... > > <? > $name1 = "$n1"; > $name1 = "$n2"; > $name3 = "$n3"; > $name4 = "$n4"; > $name5 = "$n5"; > $name6 = "$n6"; > $randomHorse = rand($name1, $name6); > $randomStrides = rand(1, 10); > echo "$randomHorse won the race by $randomStrides ! Congratulations."; > ?> > > > ------------------- > > And I feel stupid. <g> > > -Owen > > > -- > 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 >