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nsbucky on 01/12/11


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PHP Password Generator

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Function to simply generate a random password.

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  1. function generatePassword($length=8)
  2. {
  3. $chars = array_merge(range(0,9),
  4.                      range('a','z'),
  5.                      range('A','Z'),
  6.                      array('!','@','$','%','^','&','*'));		shuffle($chars);
  7. $password = '';
  8. for($i=0; $i<8; $i++) {
  9.     $password .= $chars[$i];
  10. }
  11. return $password;
  12. }

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Posted By: ohryan on January 21, 2011

Shuffle is not random, as such this is probably not the great method for generating a password: http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.shuffle.php#41593

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