reproducible random number series

Question

How can i get a series of reproducible pseudorandom numbers in PHP?

In older versions of PHP i could do that just by using the same seed in the RNG, but it does not work

Answer 1

The Mersenne Twist is a nice fast PRNG and here's a public domain PHP implementation for it:

http://kingfisher.nfshost.com/sw/twister/

That only works on PHP 5.3.0 and above.