Blog posts tagged with 'suhosin':
PHP srand problems with suhosin
Date: 13 Dec 2010Tags: [ PHP ] [ rand ] [ suhosin ]
Today I stumbled across an odd problem which took me about an hour to figure out what was going on. It had to do with mt_srand(), where it looked like it didn’t work properly. I needed a repeatable sequence of random numbers (which is EXACTLY what the Mersenne Twister produces) so I used mt_srand() with a fixed number (for testing purposes) and tried to see if the same sequence of random values were generated by mt_rand().. It didn’t…