Php and Random numbers

Extremely new to php. Just started learning 3 days go im trying to print a random number from one to ten. would this work? or should i use echo? or am i totally in left field here. thanks. would it be pure random? like a 1 in 10 chance for each number to show?

<?

$Number=rand(1,10)

print("$Number");

?>

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Edit: wrong opening tag

 

If you want to get in to programming, get familiar with and used to looking at programmer's documentation. In this case, http://www.php.net/manual/en/

 

Print and echo works... But not in your case, cause variables are case sensitive.

 

yeah, sorry i knew that. ill edit and change it. and for the first poster thanks for that link as well. im reading a how to book by sams. for mysql apache and php.

so i guess with the change it will work thanks

 

int rand ( [int $min, int $max] )

If called without the optional min, max arguments rand() returns a pseudo-random integer between 0 and RAND_MAX. If you want a random number between 5 and 15 (inclusive), for example, use rand (5, 15).

In general, rand is good enough.

Pseudo-random PHP functions and truly random number generators - see http://www.phpfive.net/article2.htm.

In your example, you'd need:

$Number=rand(1,10)
print("$Number");

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I'm not going to talk about what is good or not on how to implement this. This is just a simple random number from 1 to 10.

Strictly speaking, this will not work just in case you were testing it:

$Number=rand(1,10)
print("$Number");

PHP:

Simply because you have no semicolon at the end of the first line. This should work.

$Number=rand(1,10);
print("$Number");

PHP:

 

no it would work, because his variable is with an uppcase and the print has an uppercase

 

He edited his post. The cases were different when I posted my comment.

 

ahh ok, good eyes then... I am a all lower caps guy, so camel caps annoys me because I can never pick it up