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I have created this plugin:

class Rnd
  {
    var $return_data = '';



    public function Rnd ()
    {
      global $TMPL;

      if (($Min = $TMPL->fetch_param ('min')) === false
      or !is_numeric ($Min))
        $Min = 0;
      if (($Max = $TMPL->fetch_param ('max')) === false
      or !is_numeric ($Max))
        $Max = 1000;
      $this->return_data = mt_rand ($Min, $Max);
    }
  }

You can use with just “{exp:rnd:rnd min="<min>" max="<max>"}”. Theoretically it should return a different number each time but that’s not true. Each time you reload the page it returns a different number but it returns the same number in the same page. Put some “{exp:rnd:rnd}” in a template and all them returns the same number.

Why?

EE treats identical tags as having identical output and uses the cached result for the second and all subsequent times. You’ll have to make sure the tags are not identical, adding as much as a space or other parameter should help.

Thanks Ingmar. I suspeced it would be cached after write the post. So if I use another parameter it should work. I’ll try.

Very good. Let us know how you get on, please.

Finally I’ve used another approach: don’t use an RND plugin. Instead the module has a method to get a list of random values. I mean:

class Module
    method GetRandomList
    begin
      for n := 1 to MaxValues do
        add element to list
      end for
      return list
    end method
end class

As we use this module only once each page, everytime returns a different list of elements.

Hi, Ñuño. Thanks for posting your solution. Don’t hesitate to post again as needed.