[thelist] srand in php

Jay Greenspan jay at trans-city.com
Tue Oct 23 18:43:55 CDT 2001


On Tuesday, October 23, 2001, at 06:43 PM, noah wrote:

> Does anyone know if there's a better way to get 8 random true or false 
> values?
>

I don't know if this is any better, but since 0 will test false an 1 
will test true, this will give you an 8 element array of random true and 
false values:

mt_srand((double)microtime()*1000000);
for($i=0; $i<=7; $i++){
     $keys[$i] = mt_rand(0,1);
}


-j





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