Random and text file stuff..

[Qben]

<?PHP
$place = file("txt/places/field.txt");

$placeline = count($place);

$placerandom = rand(0,$placeline);

$creature = $place[$placerandom];
$creatureinfo = file("txt/creatures/" . $creature . ".txt");
$dice1 = $creatureinfo[1];
$dice2 = rand(1,$creatureinfo[2]);
$dice3 = $creatureinfo[3];
$dmg = $dice1*dice2+dice3;
?>

1) There will be a space in between creature and .txt
like: txt/creatures/abc .txt
why?

2) I dont think them random stuff work.. why?

[thessoro]

try :

$creature = trim ($place[$placerandom]);

to remove extra spaces from the end and the beginning of the word.

[Qben]

ok thank you, that worked fine =)

but i still have this problem it wont pick a random nr..

[laserlight]

You could try:

<?php
//open the file containing the places
$place = file("txt/places/field.txt"); 
$placeline = count($place); 
//let's select random place
//first we seed the pseudorandom number generator
mt_srand((double)microtime() * 1000000);
//now we use it
$placerandom = mt_rand(0, $placeline); 
$creature = $place[$placerandom];
$creatureinfo = file("txt/creatures/" . $creature . ".txt"); 
$dice1 = $creatureinfo[1];
$dice2 = mt_rand(1, $creatureinfo[2]); 
$dice3 = $creatureinfo[3]; 
$dmg = $dice1 * dice2 + dice3; 
?>

if you arent going to use $dice1, $dice2 and $dice3 again, then use:
$dmg = $creatureinfo[1] * mt_rand(1, $creatureinfo[2]) + $creatureinfo[3];
instead

[Qben]

ok i fixed it..
had to put -1

$placerandom = mt_rand(0, $placeline-1);