Randomly generated text

[Anon]

I know that I can randomly generate numbers, but would it be possible to randomly generate text?

This would be for like generating a random password for the user if the administrator decided to reset their password.

[Anon]

I don't know if this exactly answers your question but here's what I use for that purpose :

srand ((double) microtime() * 1000000);
$possible="ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz1234567890";
$str="";
while(strlen($str) < 6) {
	$str.=substr($possible,(rand()%(strlen($possible))),1);
}

$password = $str;

[peppe76]

This is a simple way of generating a random password (8 letters long) by using the chr function.

mt_srand((double) microtime() *10000000);
for($i=0;$i<8;$i++) {
$pwd.=chr(mt_rand(65,65+23));
}

Regards Andreas