How to generate Random Password

[reddymade]

Can i use the following generatepassword function, i found this on net:

function generatePassword ($length = 8)
{

  // start with a blank password
  $password = "";

  // define possible characters
  $possible = "0123456789bcdfghjkmnpqrstvwxyz"; 

  // set up a counter
  $i = 0; 

  // add random characters to $password until $length is reached
  while ($i < $length) { 

// pick a random character from the possible ones
$char = substr($possible, mt_rand(0, strlen($possible)-1), 1);

// we don't want this character if it's already in the password
if (!strstr($password, $char)) { 
  $password .= $char;
  $i++;
}

  }

  // done!
  return $password;

}

Thank you very much for the information.

[eriksmoen]

you could just do something non-complex such as...

$temppass = substr(md5(date("YmdHis")), 0, 8);