[SOLVED] ~n00b~ Lottery Numbers Script

[MasterACE14]

I have made a Noobie Lottery Number Script and am wondering how do I make it give unique numbers, instead of 2, 3's , or 4 7's etc. Any Ideas?

 

<?php

$a = rand(1,40);
$b = rand(1,40);
$c = rand(1,40);
$d = rand(1,40);
$e = rand(1,40);
$f = rand(1,40);
$g = rand(1,40);
$h = rand(1,40);

$space = " ";

$numbers = "Your Lottery Numbers are ";

$result = "$numbers$a$space$b$space$c$space$d$space$e$space$f$space$g$space$h";

echo ("$result");

?>

[trq]

What exactly do you mean?

 

PS; There are much easier ways of doing this.

 

<?php

  $tmp = '';
  for ($i=0;$i<=7;$i++) {
    $tmp .= rand(0,9).' ';
  }

  echo rtrim("Your Lottery Numbers are ".$tmp);

?>

[MasterACE14]

lol, thanks I'm just a noob trying to learn    , What I mean is I don't want 2 or more numbers being the same, I want all unique results.

 

--== Ahhh, Hate it when it double posts in error! ==--

[MasterACE14]

lol, thanks I'm just a noob trying to learn    , What I mean is I don't want 2 or more numbers being the same, I want all unique results. so could you show me how to do that with my script please? I'm gonna have to save your script and break it down later lol 

 

Regards ACE

[trq]

Ok.

 

<?php

  // create an array. Same as array(0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9);
  $arr = range(1,9);
  // shuffle the order around.
  shuffle($arr);
  // pop the last element off the array so that there is only 8 numbers.
  array_pop($arr);
  // print the results. implode() turns the array back into a string with each element seperated by a space.
  echo "Your Lottery Numbers are " . implode(' ',$arr);

?>

 

Hope this helps.

[Barand]

no duplicates:

 

<?php
$numbers = range (1,40);                                       // put 40 balls in the bag
shuffle ($numbers);                                            // shake the bag
$selected = array_slice($numbers,0, ;                        // take out the top 8
sort($selected);                                               // arrange them in order
echo 'Your lottery numbers are: ' . join (', ', $selected);
?>

[MasterACE14]

woah thorpe, perfect man, Exactly what I want!! and a hell lot simplier! lol.

 

lol, Love the commenting Barand right up their with the pros! ps. Nice Sig.

 

what a team you guys make

 

Keep up the good stuff, PHP Freaks Own the day(so what else is new?  )

 

Thanks again mate! Problem solved 

[trq]

Sorry... didn't see you had edited these to represent 1-40.

 

$a = rand(1,40);

 

They were 1-9 last I looked.

[MasterACE14]

yep, I saw that, my very first post without being edited was stupid lol, choosing 8 numbers, and I wanted them all unique, and it was between 1 and 9, would of done all the numbers except 1 lol 

 

Thanks Again guys.

 

ACE