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phprandomnumbers
burger97979
burger97979

Reputation: 85

Generate a Random Number that Stays for more than one PHP Process?

I have done some research on this and discovered the rand(), srand(), and mt_srand() yet they don't work too well for me.

I want PHP to generate a random ID (number) and then have it stay that way no matter how many times you refresh the page. I suppose this could be done with incrementing operators or session variables? Cookies perhaps?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 103

Answers (1)

Sulliman Aïad
Sulliman Aïad

Reputation: 96

One way to do it with sessions for a random number between 42 and 1337:

session_start();
$random_nb = $_SESSION['random_nb'] ?: ($_SESSION['random_nb'] = mt_rand(42, 1337));

echo $random_nb;

Upvotes: 1

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