note 21412 deleted from function.mt-rand by sander
| From: | sander@php.net | Date: | Sun, 12 May 2002 13:24:04 +0000 |
| Subject: | note 21412 deleted from function.mt-rand by sander | ||
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The manual should say that you MUST call mt_srand() if you wish to consistently retrieve random
values with mt_rand(). While some servers will automagically use random seed others will not and
you may generate the same value over and over.
See the mt_srand() user notes on how to seed properly.