Random Password problem
| From: | J. Connolly | Date: | Tue, 08 Mar 2005 19:41:11 +0000 |
| Subject: | Random Password problem | ||
| Groups: | php.db | ||
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I am using this php in order to create, store and send random passwords to people who want to join my mailing list.
<?php
function random_password () {
$seed = (integer) md5(microtime());
mt_srand($seed);
$password = mt_rand(1,99999999);
$password = substr(md5($password), 3,9);
return $password;
}
?>
<?php
$msg = random_password();
echo $msg;
?>
I seem to be getting the same number very often which makes me fear that this is not so random. I am a noob so I do not know if this is coincidence or a fault in my coding.
Right now, I have been setting up passwords manually, but would like users to be as free from me as possible. Any direction would be helpful.
BTW, I keep getting the following number an absurd amount of times. I have deleted cookies and even gone to other machines, and yet it still generates this number.
8f31a3
Thank you,
jozef