Keeping a Variable's Value: This SHOULD Be Easy

30 Oct 2001

      ...but apparently it's not. If I were writing this in PHP:

<html><body>
Okay, boys and girls! Let's open the magic box and generate a random 
number! (applause)<br and drum roll>
<? x = int mt_rand(0,9); echo x ?><br, strike up the band>
Wow! Wasn't that exciting? Oh no! I forgot the magic number<br, shrieks of 
horror>
<? x = int mt_rand(0,9); echo x ?><br, strike up the band again> Oh, of 
course! How could I forget!<br, fade to black>
</body></html>

...but apparently DTML *does* forget. Call that daggone variable more than 
once and you have to run the formula that generates a random digit! Bam! 
Variable's gone. Is there no way around this?
Please help...
BenO

Ben Ocean

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