Dice rolling...

[Squirter]

I'm trying to generate a number for a 20-sided die being rolled a certain amount of times.

code:

<? $dice = rand(1,20); $rolls = $HTTP_GET_VARS['rolls']; $outcome = $dice * $rolls; echo "You want to roll a <b>20</b>-sided die <b> $rolls </b> times. <br>"; echo "The outcome is $outcome"; ?>

Problem is, I want it to make a random number for each roll. Right now, it only gets one number, and multiplies it by the number of rolls I requested.

e.g Set to roll 3 times. First it rolls a 4. But then it multiplies itself by 3. 4 * 3 = 12.

I want it to make a different number each time, so:

Set to roll 3 times. 5 + 17 +12 = 34.

Anyone know the problem?
(BTW, I'm pretty new to PHP, so if you put in a new command, could you explain it? ^^

[octopi]

I think you want to roll the dice, the number of times specifiyed by 'rolls'

consider the following:

code:

<?php  $rolls = $HTTP_GET_VARS['rolls'];  for ($x=1;$x <= $rolls; $x+=1) {    $dice = rand(1,20);    print "Roll $x: $dice<br>\n";  } ?>

the 'for' command loops the number threw the stuff in the {}'s the number of times specified by the '$x=1;$x <= $rolls; $x+=1', this says....the first time we enter the for loop, set x=1, then the next parts the condition, it keeps looping until this is false, and the next parts the counter, this increments x by 1, each time, until it meets the condition.

[Squirter]

Er, I didn't really understand that...
Could you give me another example?

BTW, what is <=?

[PaddyLong]

<= is just less than or equal to... same as in any boolean comparison expression in any language

[wtd]

Just for the sake of havng an OO solution.

code:

<?    // Not tested    class Die {       var $sides;       function Die($sides = 6) {          $this->sides = $sides;       }       function roll() {          return rand(1, $sides);       }    }    $rolls = $HTTP_GET_VARS['rolls'];    $die = new Die(20);    for ($i = 1; $i <= $rolls; $i++) {       echo('You rolled ' . $die->roll() . '<br/>');    } ?>