Generating a random number in an SHTML page

Question

I need to attach a random number to a query string in an SHTML page. It's straightforward to generate the value in PHP:

function get_random_id(){
  srand ((double) microtime( )*1000000);
  return rand(0,1844);
}

But how do you use this when the SHTML page uses syntax like this?

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Anyone know of a syntax manual for SHTML pages? Thanks.

Answer 1

You need to run an external program to get a random number using a server side include.