Getting the variable back from the func

[bonehooray]

I have a function looking like this:

function makepassword($length = 5) {

srand( (double) microtime() );

$which = "";
$password = "";

for ($i=0; $i < $length; $i++) {
$which = rand(1, 3);

if ( $which == 1 ) $password .= rand(0,10);
elseif ( $which == 2 ) $password .= chr( rand(65, 26) );
elseif ( $which == 3 ) $password .= chr( rand(97, 26) );

} return $password;
}

How do I get the $password into the code? I tried makepassword($password) and some variations of that. The function is in an functions.php file, which is included sametime as the header of the document.

Regards,

Stig

[polson]

Notice how you have this inside the function :

$password = "";

So even if you do pass in such a value it'll be reset. Remove that and have :

function makepassword($password, $length = 5)
{

Then pass it in. If you mean you want to return the password then do :

$password = makepassword();

[Anon]

the $password = "" line is only there to make sure that any password string that may exist, will be removed, so that the code can start working on generating the pw from scratch.