Newbie Array help maybe???

[Anon]

Hi,

Just started on PHP and was wondering if someone could give me some pointers on how to write the following code...

I want to write a php script that will pick out random lottery number for me, but I want it to use all 49 number at least once.

So I want to end up with 9 lines of numbers using all of the number from 1 to 49. ANy ideas?

Many Many thanks

Mark

[Anon]

Ummm...

I'm not a PHP expert, but, this code snippet can serve to you (maybe exist a bug, I've codded directly to this message, but the idea should be like this):

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// Create an array with a range of numbers 1 - 49
$numberlist = array(range(1,49));

$count = 0
// for loop to pic seven numbers first condition of for absent (then should be true) and evaluate directly the second one */
for ( , $count = 7, ++$count ) {

/ Ummm I'm not sure, but this line should pick a number at random from the array numberlist and extract to the array pick /
reset($numberlist);
$pick = rand(pull($numberlist));
push($sevennos, $pick);
}

/ this is the moment of displaying the seven choices /
$c_key = 0;
reset($sevennos);
while ($c_key = 7) {
print $pick[$c_key];
}

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Cheers,
Alfonso Correas

[Anon]

Yep! first bug;

The code who reads like this:

$c_key = 0;
reset($sevennos);
while ($c_key = 7) {
print $pick[$c_key];
}

SHOULD read like this:

$c_key = 0;
reset($sevennos);
while ($c_key = 7) {
print $pick[$c_key];
++$c_key;

}

If you don't add one to the value of $c_key, then you read seven times the same array value.