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I didn't make this, I just found it online and found it really useful for generating unique IDs for stuff.

Have fun using this.

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  1. function genRandomString($length) {
  2.     $characters = '0123456789abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ';
  3.     $string = '';    
  4.     for ($p = 0; $p < $length; $p++) {
  5.         $string .= $characters[mt_rand(0, strlen($characters))];
  6.     }
  7.     return $string;
  8. }
  9.  
  10. //////////////////////////////////////
  11. // Example :                        //
  12. //                                  //
  13. // echo genRandomString(rand(3,7)); //
  14. //                                  //
  15. // Could Print Out: Ac1dF           //
  16.  
  17. //////////////////////////////////////

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