1. change the number to a string: $t = (string) time();
2. chop off the last char of the string: $char = substr($t, -1);
3. you're done...: include "footer$char.html";
Time wins certainly produces better results, at least for what I am
doing, than rand...
Thanks all for your input...
http://www.weisd.com/store2/WINHD-9022.php
Not me -- I get a normal distribution.
Cheers,
tedd
Thanks Tedd, That is because it is using time now and not rand...
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That is strange. I get pretty balanced results on this computer.
Andrew
Simple code,
You can see it in action here at the bottom of the page there is a footer.
Each footer is the same right now except I have numbered them for testing.
As I refresh the page, I get footer10 almost alwa
Computer functions to generate random numbers are not designed to do what
their name suggests.
Software testing requires repeatability, and this includes random number
generation.
Without knowing how PHP seeds the generator it is difficult to predict
what it will do.
I still think taki
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Stephen wrote:
On a php web page I want to generate a random number between say 1 and
10 and then use that number to reference a particular file in
an include tag.
Is there an easy way to do this?
Get the tim
e a number of things you can do with that to select a random file
and
include it. Have an associative array where the random number matches an
array key and the value is the filename you want, is one method.
Just starting out with PHP or is this a homework assignment? :)
-TG
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On a php web page I want to generate a random number between say 1 and 10
and then use that number to reference a particular file in an include tag.
Is there an easy way to do this?
Thanks
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