jacko_162 Posted January 4, 2011 Share Posted January 4, 2011 As above, I have a lottery style site that picks a random number between 1-8 but my users complain for some reason that this is not enough. So i was told to look into using fopen and random.org to generate a random number. Anyone have experience of this and perhaps a code snippet for me to look at and possibly use? help will be appreciated. Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/223348-choosing-random-number-using-fopen-and-randomorg/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
QuickOldCar Posted January 4, 2011 Share Posted January 4, 2011 Well being just 1 to 8 I can see why. <?php $number = rand(1,5000)-1;//1 is minumum number, 5000 is the maximum echo $number; ?> Can even get crazy with this by running a for loop to create a random numbers array, then shuffle_array() and from that array pull a random result. Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/223348-choosing-random-number-using-fopen-and-randomorg/#findComment-1154563 Share on other sites More sharing options...
jacko_162 Posted January 4, 2011 Author Share Posted January 4, 2011 yes i use the PHP rand feature already, thats why i wanted to change this to pull from random.org or something. Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/223348-choosing-random-number-using-fopen-and-randomorg/#findComment-1154567 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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