help password generator

[greedyisg00d]

I used this code but the problem is the page needs to be refresh if I want to change the generated password

$pass=substr(md5(microtime()), 0, 8);
echo $pass;

Is it possible to generate the password without page refresh for example there is a button generate where users can just click it.

Thanks

[NogDog]

Either do it completely in JavaScript, or else combine JS with PHP for an AJAX implementation.

[Ashley_Sheridan]

PHP is server-side, so you have to have something triggering the action on the server. Normally this would be a page refresh, but it could be, like NogDog said, an AJAX call too.