Random Numbers PHP Script

Basically i found this small script on Google today, i just want to know a few answers:

If i wanted to use this script at the backend of my website.. so when i press a button it will refresh the numbers and place the 2 numbers on the main page of the website so both numbers are seeable by the public. How would i do this?

Is this safe? Can it be broken so people from the public can see what the next number will be?

Is there a better way of doing it?

Many thanks,
Jamie Hann

What the above code does is simply echo a new number from 1 - 10 by random. So if you just put that in a index.php file, upload, then hit f5 a every few seconds, you will see a different number being generated each time.

From what I gather, you are wanting to post on a page, the next 2 digits, that will be displayed once someone has guessed what the current number is?

Basically yeah, someone comes onto the main index page, types in there 2 digits they wish to choose, then from the admin panel (i'll obviously be the admin) i click on the randomize button and then the 2 digits that come up will be placed somewhere on the main site where the public can see.

Many thanks,
Jamie

That would work fine. You can't predict what the random numbers will be until they are generated, at which point they are available to the public anyway, right?

Originally Posted by gluc0se That would work fine. You can't predict what the random numbers will be until they are generated, at which point they are available to the public anyway, right?

well, that's not true. It's pseudorandom number, which is not random at all.
If somebody will bet on lets say 1 million dollars - it can be hacked.

Originally Posted by !LLu$!0N Is this safe? Can it be broken so people from the public can see what the next number will be?

thats why its called random

Originally Posted by Seraskier thats why its called random

You're clearly an idiot. Some people think or know different

Jamie

Originally Posted by !LLu$!0N You're clearly an idiot. Some people think or know different Jamie

i dont even remember saying that hahaha
but im guessing.. that he said can they figure out the next number and i said cause its random when php is called...

If you haven't found the answer thus far.. You should have the random number stored into a file (or DB) and once someone guesses a number, it checks with the DB (or file) and if it is the same number then display something like "GREAT JOB YOU'RE A PSYCHIC" then have the script generate a new number and reset the stats