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Well, wacky code will produce wacky results. PHP being so forgiving, it doesn't just explode - There are definitely positives and negatives of that overall behaviour.

Alternately, <?php $values = array( // Number => Weighted chance 1 => 1, 2 => 1, 3 => 5, // 5x more likely than 1,2 4 => 3 // 3x more likely than 1,2 ); // The total of all the chances $total = array_sum($values); // Will track the sum of all tested chances $i = 0; // The number we're looking to find $find = mt_rand(1,$total); // Loop through value=>chance array foreach( $values as $val => $chance ) { // Add current chance to the running total $i += $chance; // Check if the running total equals or exceeds the number we're trying to find if( $find <= $i ) // If so, break out of the loop break; } // The last assigned value before breaking will contain the number echo $val; ?> The process is more complex, but the input is more simplified.

If cURL is gone, I doubt allow_url_fopen is true

Force everyone to use OSX? Expecting a browser to render fonts like a design application is just silly I believe most just piggy-back on the OS' rendering engine. Use images, static or dynamic, if you need fonts to render in a certain way.

BTW - you should tie your mind up tighter next time

Well, there's 256 valid ASCII characters, so he's nowhere near half-way.

session_register is long depricated. On top of that, you're using in incorrectly. Please, check out the manual on how to assign and use session variables. http://php.net/manual/en/session.examples.basic.php

I think it's preg_quote that's messing up the ranges (\-). IMO, using a blacklist is a bad idea unless you're limiting all input to the ASCII range, and even then it would be pretty big. A solution could be to keep ranges in a separate array, and not preg_quote those.

Is the PHP script being used to authenticate running on the same server as their application?

Can you please give us a small snippet of code to recreate your issue. You are being vague and using some confusing language to try and explain your problem.

INSERT INTO tablename (counter, unique) VALUES (1, $unique_value) ON DUPLICATE KEY UPDATE counter = counter + 1; http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/insert-on-duplicate.html You should read the manual entry. There are some specific by-products of using this method.

Probably, because that function doesn't exist? The manual is a necessary reference, you have to learn to check there first http://www.php.net/m...mysqli-stmt.php As to your problem, http://www.php.net/m...-stmt.fetch.php Ninja'd.

You're missing the money_format call in your log.

Seems legit.

Why not use the example that works then. The language barrier here seems too large to overcome. I'm really lost.