note 14790 added to function.srand.php

From: Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2001 02:14:59 +0000
Subject: note 14790 added to function.srand.php
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I have a ramdon circulater that changes a piece of text once a day, and I use the following code to make sure the see is unique enough. $tm = time(); $today = mktime(0, 0, 0, (int)date("n", $tm), (int)date("j", $tm), (int)date("Y", $tm)); srand($today / pi()); The pi works wonders for the whole thing and it works like a charm. Any other big decimal number will do as well, but pi is the most common "big" number. http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.srand.php

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