Multiple Randoms On Same Page

[Fireal]

Hello, I'm still working with getting all my randoms set up for a fighting game I'm working on. My issue is using the same random function twice, once per fighter, to determine a winner. Except, I keep getting the

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Fatal error: Cannot redeclare random_int()

issue. My question is how do you go about getting multiple random numbers in the same page with out issue? Thanks!

[Jackolantern]

It isn't actually a problem with creating a random number. The issue is that your code is redeclaring the random_int() function. Likely a file is being included multiple times that declares the random_int() function multiple times. You should look at the code that declares that function and then trace back how it is being included into the application.

[Fireal]

Thanks Jack. However, I still can't seem to figure it out.

I declare the function with

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function random_int ($min, $max) {return (mt_rand($min,$max));}

and call it with

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$matchFinish = random_int(1,10);

I have tried moving the declaration in the same loop as the call and outside the loop. It is only called once as well. I appreciate any kind of breakdown of this issue a bit more.

[a_bertrand]

A function must declared only once. So for sure the function declaration must be outside of the loop, but I suspect it will still be called multiple times, can you show us the whole piece of code?

[Fireal]

Thanks a_bertrand, that was it! I was losing track of the function declaration in my spaghetti code. It was nested in a loop. Thanks guys!