RANDOM bug?

[harris97]

I have a small code like this below (to display random quotes). text quotes is in file quotes.txt.

$quotes=file(\"quotes.txt\");
$number_quotes=count($quotes);
if($number_quotes!==0){$number_quotes.=-1;};
$random=rand(0,$number_quotes);
echo $quotes[$random];

The Question is when i run it on my own server it works correctly but when i put these files on my commercial hosting, it did\'nt work. The message quote will only display at once and it won\'t get random anymore when i press refresh button.

Is this related to PHP server configuration or what?? please helppp.. thanks..

[ziong]

"Remember to seed the random number generator before use with srand()."
for detail, you can find it in manual.