Is it possible to control the output of rand, for example if I just want rand to give me the output of the variable $roll1 with the value or number of 1 half the time out of the six possibilities when rand is ran or when the browser is refreshed, how does one accomplish that?
My code sucks but I am fighting to learn, I only get one every now and then, but it’s not consistent, I want a 1 every time I refresh the page.
So If I refresh the page 6 times I should get a 1 out of the variable $roll1 three times, and the rest of the values for $roll1 should be random.
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=utf-8"/>
<title>loaded dice</title>
</head>
<body>
<h1>loaded dice</h1>
<h3>loaded dice</h3>
<?php
// loaded dice, should roll the number 1 half the time out of a total of 6.
// So if I refreshed my browser six times I should at least see three 1's for roll1.
$roll1 = rand(1, 6);
// Okay is it possible to divide rand by two or somehow set it up
// so that I get the the value 1 half the time?
// I am trying division here on the if clause in the hopes that I can just have
// 1 half the time, but it's not working,maybe some type of switch might work? :-(.
if ($roll1 == 3) {
$roll1 / 3;
}
if ($roll1 == 6) {
$roll1 / 6;
}
if ($roll1 == 1) {
$roll1 / 1;
}
// This parts works fine :-).
// Normal random roll, is okay.
$roll2 = rand(1, 6);
print <<<HERE
<p>Rolls normal roll:</p>
You rolled a $roll2.
<p>Rolls the number 1 half the time:</p>
<p>You rolled a $roll1.</p>
HERE;
// Notice how we used $roll1 and 2, alongside the HERE doc to echo out a given value.
?>
<p>
Please refresh this page in the browser to roll another die.
</p>
</body>
</html>
You could do something like this