Question

Quick PHP Question.
I am kinda newb to PHP so bear with me.

Why this ends up with 500 server error?

<?php
//session start
session_start();

//one time ticket is issued
$ticket = md5(uniqid(mt_rand),TRUE);

//put var ticket in SESSION array which is used in next page.
$_SESSION['ticket'][] = $ticket;

...

$_SESSION['ticketPOST'] = $_POST['ticket'];

...

//functionize htmlspecialchars
function h($string) {
    return htmlspecialchars($string, ENT_QUOTES);
}

?>

in same file down below, I wrote something like this:

<form action="brahbrah.php" method="post">
<input type="hidden" name="ticket" value="<?php echo h($ticket); ?>">
<input type="submit" name="indexForm" value="preview">
</form>

any help appreciated.
Thanx.

Answer 1

$ticket = md5(uniqid(mt_rand()),TRUE);

mt_rand is a function and you forgot to put ()