mt_rand and rand being goofy...

[Anon]

<? function randQuote($numx) {
$randomnumber = $numx;
$quote[0] = 'blah';
(all the way to $quote[16])
return $quote[$randomnumber];
} ?>
<? echo randQuote(mt_rand(0,16)); ?>

this always just returns ONE quote (the same one, always)..
i even just did <? echo mt_rand(); ?> and it would only return one number all the time...

anyone have the same problem?

[Anon]

I'm not sure if it applies here but there isn't really such a thing as truely random, so normally you have to "seed" the random number generator before using a random command ie:

// seed with microseconds since last "whole" second
srand ((double) microtime() * 1000000);
$randval = rand();