note 12015 added to function.srand.php
| From: | ryland at ryland dot net | Date: | Sun, 18 Mar 2001 21:28:25 +0000 |
| Subject: | note 12015 added to function.srand.php | ||
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richard@zend.com said above:
>*ALWAYS* use (double)microtime()*1000000 as your seed.
>Do *NOT* just use time(). Do not add an extra 0 to make it "bigger".
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>Anything else is sub-standard.
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>For now, just trust the PHP Developers, okay?
If anything else is "sub-standard", why not make the seed argument optional,
and make the default (double)microtime()*1000000 when the argument is absent?
Save me a few keystrokes, anyway, and help make sure people don't do it in a
"sub-standard" fashion... :)
http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.srand.php