Help with a random numbers generator script

[deviss]

Hello

I've got a php script that generates random number every page refresh as it's shown below

<?php
srand ((double) microtime( )*1000000);
$random_number = rand(1000,5000);
echo "$random_number";
?>

Everything is good but i would like an option over the script that will change the random generated number each x seconds, a value where i can choose on how many seconds another random number will be generated and shown


would appreciate the help

[Matthew1980]

Hi there deviss,

Firstly welcome to WebmasterWorld!

When you're wanting to start putting a timer on a script this generally indicates that your going to need a cron job to police it - unless you can get a nifty piece of ajax to do that for you (but that's outside the scope of my knowledge)

WRT the code you supplied - it looks to me like the top line is doing nothing, because your only using the bottom two lines of code.

I think (bearing in mind that its before coffee at the moment :)) that this would still function like this:-

<?php
echo rand(1000,5000);
?>

Of course that's stripped down to bare bones, and there is not much memory usage there as it's a direct echo, and not assigned to memory.

There are bound to be a few suggestions, but as far as setting up a timer, you could have a page refresh or header() call with the delay parameter set, which you could have set in a db field somewhere which *could* achieve what your after. Of course this assumes that the page isn't top heavy with content.

Cheers,
MRb

[IntegrityWebDev]

I think you are going to want JS/JQuery for this.

[deviss]

anyone can help with a complete code or guide?

[IntegrityWebDev]

You will probably want to post your request in the AJAX area to get the code needed.