(PHP 3>= 3.0.6, PHP 4 >= 4.0.0)
Seeds the random number generator with seed.
// seed with microseconds function make_seed() { list($usec, $sec) = explode(' ', microtime()); return (float) $sec + ((float) $usec * 100000); } mt_srand(make_seed()); $randval = mt_rand();
See also mt_rand(), mt_getrandmax(), srand(), rand(), and getrandmax().