Random string??

Anon

Hi,

Is there any function in PHP that will generate random string of user-specified length??

for example: length 10

As1234hgKl

or ehich can generate random numbers?

Thanks,
Greg

andreash

I don't really know if there is a better way but I use this for "new password" generation...

$uni = md5 (uniqid (rand()));
$echo = substr($uni, 0, 10);

echo $echo;

Works fine for me.

lordstjohn

I use the followin script to generate a random session ID... You could use it to générate passwords (défault length : 8 char).

<?
/
** Les identifiants de session
/

// créer un id de session
function SessionID($length=8)
{
/
** Définir un jeu de caractères possible
/
$Pool = "ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ";
$Pool .= "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz";

  for($index = 0; $index < $length; $index++)
  {
		$sid .= substr($Pool,
			 (rand()%(strlen($Pool))), 1);
  }

  return($sid);

}

// initialiser le générateur
srand(time());

$session = SessionID(8);