----- Original Message ----- From: "Katie Dewees" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Jake McHenry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, January 16, 2004 4:44 PM Subject: RE: [PHP] odd and even numbers
> Can you just set a value somewhere (in a flat file, or a database) to 1 or > 2. 1 can represent person number 1, 2 person number 2. Check the value every > time you deliver an e-mail to see who gets it, and then switch it to the > other one. > > Katie Dewees > Web Developer > E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -----Original Message----- > From: Jake McHenry [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, January 16, 2004 3:42 PM > To: joel boonstra > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [PHP] odd and even numbers > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "joel boonstra" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Friday, January 16, 2004 3:35 PM > Subject: Re: [PHP] odd and even numbers > > > > On Fri, Jan 16, 2004 at 02:30:59PM -0600, Jeremy wrote: > > > function isOdd ($value) { > > > return (int)$value % 2 ? true : false; > > > } > > > > > > Returns true/false if the value is odd. Also rounds down floating point > numbers given as the test value. > > > > No need to explicitly state "true" and "false". Just negate the result > > of your modulus operator, and take advantage of the fact that "0" is > > false, and "1" is true: > > > > function isOdd ($value) { > > return !((int)$value % 2); > > } > > > > -- > > [ joel boonstra | gospelcom.net ] > > > > -- > > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > > > > This worked.. somewhat.. here is what I want to do though. > > I have two people checking the same email address. I want to break up the > emails 50/50 to each person. What values can I put into the random number > generator so that I can get closer to 50/50. I just set up a test page with: > > $rand = rand(1, 501); > > echo $rand; > > if ($rand % 2 == 0) > echo "even"; > else > echo "odd"; > > > and I'm getting a lot more evens than odds, so the one person would get more > emails than the other. Is there any substitution to rand that I could use to > get one message to go to one person, then the next to the other? I'd like it > to be as close to 50/50 as possible. > > any questions, let me know > > Thanks, > Jake > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > I could, but I didn't really want to. I just wanted a quick fix... I was going to do that before, just wanted to see if anyone knew of another route. Thanks, Jake -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
