Ah! excellent, it works fine now. I must apparently
skipped that line about seeding it in the php
documentation. (doh!)
I wonder why IE5.5 didnt need the seeding in order to
do the rand()?
Thanks alot,
Joel
--- Romulo Roberto Pereira <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> you need to seed the rand with srand() before the
> rand() command...
>
> cheers,
>
> Rom
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Joel Dossey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Wednesday, January 17, 2001 1:39 PM
> Subject: [PHP] Netscape rand() not random
>
>
> Hello,
> I have been toying with php for a short while and
> have
> problems getting the following code to correctly
> execute on Netscape:
>
> <?php
> header ("Expires: Mon, 26 Jul 1997 05:00:00 GMT");
> header("Last-Modified: ".gmdate("D, d M Y
> H:i:s",getlastmod())." GMT");
> header ("Cache-Control: no-cache, must-revalidate");
> header ("Pragma: no-cache");
>
> for($i=0; $i<40; $i++)
> {
> $rand= rand(1, 40);
>
> print "$rand<BR>";
> }
> ?>
>
> I included the headers because I thought this would
> prevent caching, but even still, everytime I reload
> and shift-reload Netscape (browser cache is set to
> zero) I receive the same output from first access,
> which really ruins any true random activity. Any
> ideas?
>
> thanks much,
> Joel Dossey
>
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