title: How can you get a predictable pseudorandom sequence of numbers WITHOUT seeding the generator in PHP?
body: <p><code>srand()</code> and <code>mt_srand()</code> are disabled on my host server. I want to select a few random items from an array, but the should be the same on a particular day. Seeding with the date works on my computer, but not on the host server. (Damn these disable-happy security paranoid people!)</p>
  
  <p>An external generator would be good, but I can't seem to find any. I'm not doing cryptography, the most basic of randomness would do.</p>
  
  <p><strong>EDIT</strong>: Done. I found <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/506118/how-to-manually-generate-random-numbers/936184#936184">this simple version</a> in a related question and adapted the code for PHP. Perfect!</p>