Re: Random Character Generator

Well, here's an untested script off the top of my head: function random_string($Ncharacters) { static $CharList = '0123456789abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz'; $String = ''; $Max = strlen($CharList)-1; for ($i=0; $<$Ncharacters; $i++) {

      $String .= $CharList{rand(0, $Max)};

} return $String; } For php < 4.2.0, you'll need to seed the random number generator first; see

        http://www.php.net/rand

You could probably also make something up using rand in conjunction with ord():

        http://www.php.net/ord

Also see:

        http://www.php.net/manual/en/language.types.string.php#language.types.string.parsing

-steve At 04:32 PM 11/10/03, Jason Williard wrote:

I would like to have a script that randomly generates alpha-numeric characters. Does anyone know of any scripts that can do this or perhaps the basic code to generate random characters? Thank You, Jason Williard

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