I want to generate the profile ids in my software. The mt_rand
function works well but I need the ids to be a fixed 10 digit long. Currently I am looping through mt_rand
outputs until I get a 10 digit number. But the problem I am facing now is that most of the profile ids start from 1 and some from 2. None from any of the other single digit numbers. I understand this happens because of mt_rand
's range and it can't produce 10 digit numbers that start with 3 or more.
This is what I am currently doing
for($i = 0; $i < 200; $i++){
$num = mt_rand();
if(strlen($num) == 10) echo $num."<br>";
}
If you run the above code you will see all numbers start from either 1 or 2. Any way to fix this?
Edit: I guess I can just flip the numbers but some numbers end with zero and this seems like a bit of a hack anyways. But then again, random number generation is a hack in itself I guess.
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