Posted by Oli Filth on 10/03/05 16:16

Iain wrote:
> Oh no, I lie...actually checking on the hosted site with a phpinfo() vs
> believing what the ISP say, I see the hosted service is on v4.1.2
>
>

According to the manual (http://php.net/rand):

"As of PHP 4.2.0, there is no need to seed the random number generator
with srand() or mt_srand() as this is now done automatically."

i.e. before 4.2, you will need to call srand() at the beginning of the
script to seed the random number generator.

--
Oli

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