Re: Re: rand_str
| From: | Jeroen van Wolffelaar | Date: | Sun, 05 Aug 2001 15:21:39 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Re: rand_str | ||
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>but why not put it into PEAR?
PEAR can be useful, but the power of PHP is, that is has so many helpful
build-in functions. And with pear, it will always be longer.
> I think that new functions should be added on basis of
> usefulness, not the "coolness" factor. IMNSHO this function
> isn't very useful,
To generate random passwords, with characters you decide, and length? I
think it is useful, but usefulness indeed is a good point. Does everyone
here doubt the usefulness?
> and it is extremely easy to implement in
> userland:
That is not true, md5 will always return hex, and is of specific length. I
can image users don't want (so much) digits, and/or want to exclude certain
look-alike chars ( 0 (zero) and O (o), for example).
Greetz,
Jeroen