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at September 23, 2009 15:53 by paulgrenwood


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/*************
*@l - length of random string
*/
function generate_rand($l){
  $c= "ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz0123456789";
  srand((double)microtime()*1000000);
  for($i=0; $i<$l; $i++) {
	  $rand.= $c[rand()%strlen($c)];
  }
  return $rand;
 }

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Initial Description
If you don’t need human readable string, then use this function instead, which will create a random string you can use for user id’s etc.

Initial Title
Generate Random String

Initial Tags
php

Initial Language
PHP