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Making a quick random number

Submitted by Benjamin Melançon on May 31, 2008 - 8:47am
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Not truly random in some cosmic computer science sense, but good enough for non-mission critical (or rather, nothing for anyone to exploit the not-complete-randomness) uses.

http://www.php-scripts.com/php_diary/122799.php3

<?php
srand(time());
$random = (rand()%9);
?>

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