note 56730 added to function.rand
| From: | VikingCoder at osu1 dot php dot net | Date: | Tue, 13 Sep 2005 19:21:31 +0000 |
| Subject: | note 56730 added to function.rand | ||
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To mark at mmpro dot de, or anybody else wanting a unique list of random numbers in a given range.
$min=1;
$max=10;
$count=5;
$list=range($min,$max);
shuffle($list);
$list=array_slice($list,0,$count);
andy at andycc dot net, this can also be used to generate random strings.
$length=8;
$list=array_merge(range('a','z'),range(0,9));
shuffle($list);
$string=substr(join($list),0,$length);
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