lottery outcome script

[djdaz]

Hi
A friend of mine has asked me to make him a php script that lists all the possible outcomes from a game of lottery, the game has 6 numbers, each ranging from 1-30. How would i go about making such a script

Thanks

[devinemke]

that's funny, a friend of mine asked me to write him a PHP script that would tell him when and where he would be struck by lightning.

...just kidding

[djdaz]

Originally posted by devinemke
that's funny, a friend of mine asked me to write him a PHP script that would tell him when and where he would be struck by lightning.

...just kidding

Now that would be useful, may i have a copy?

[BuzzLY]

Well... in theory it's possible, of course. But do the math...

Here is code that will do what you want, with numbers 1 thru 10:

<?php
$min = 1;
$max = 10;
for ($u=$min;$u<=$max;$u++) {
  for ($v=$min;$v<=$max;$v++) {
    if ($u!=$v) {
      for ($w=$min;$w<=$max;$w++) {
        if (!in_array($w,array($u,$v))) {
          for ($x=$min;$x<=$max;$x++) {
            if (!in_array($x,array($u,$v,$w))) {
              for ($y=$min;$y<=$max;$y++) {
                if (!in_array($y,array($u,$v,$w,$x))) {
                  for ($z=$min;$z<=$max;$z++) {
                    if (!in_array($z,array($u,$v,$w,$x,$y))) {
                      echo "[".$u." ".$v." ".$w." ".$x." ".$y." ".$z."] \n";
                    }
                  }
                }
              }
            }
          }
        }
      }
    }
  }
}
?>

I don't recommend you set $max to 30, unless you want to wait for over 110 millon sets to return. Your server will not be happy.