note 40923 added to function.rand
| From: | cfranklin at nomadcf dot com | Date: | Fri, 19 Mar 2004 05:57:46 +0000 |
| Subject: | note 40923 added to function.rand | ||
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Heres how to create random yet web-safe colors in hex using rand().
$Color = '#'.substr(md5(rand()),0,6);
I'll explain from the insdie out.
rand() = creates a random number.
md5 = Turns that random number in to a 32 bit long hex
number.
substr(,0,6) = takes the 1st 6 hex chars from the MD5 string.
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Manual Page -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.rand.php
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