what's wrong with this while loop?

From: Date: Tue, 07 Jun 2005 04:58:15 +0000
Subject: what's wrong with this while loop?
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Following my code is to write a 15digit random generated password into a file named test.txt. I was trying to keep it random generating 100 passwords and be written into test.txt by using a while loop, however, the result is strange. Take a look at the code (most of it is from php.net) and what's wrong with this while loop? besides, if I generate a large sum of passwords,say 50 million, will it be repetitive? Thank you! <?php /* <meta HTTP-EQUIV="REFRESH" content="1; url=http://svr/rand.php"> */ $length = 15; $sum = 100; $key_chars = 'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ0123456789'; $rand_max = strlen($key_chars) - 1; $filename = 'test.txt'; $tot=0; while($tot < $sum){ for ($i = 0; $i < $length; $i++){ $rand_pos = rand(0, $rand_max); $rand_key[] = $key_chars{$rand_pos}; } $rand_pass = implode('', $rand_key); $somecontent = "$tot $rand_pass\n"; echo $somecontent; $filename = 'test.txt'; // Let's make sure the file exists and is writable first. if (is_writable($filename)) { // In our example we're opening $filename in append mode. // The file pointer is at the bottom of the file hence // that's where $somecontent will go when we fwrite() it. if (!$handle = fopen($filename, 'a')) { echo "Cannot open file ($filename)"; exit; } // Write $somecontent to our opened file. if (fwrite($handle, $somecontent) === FALSE) { echo "Cannot write to file ($filename)"; exit; } echo "Success, wrote ($somecontent) to file ($filename)"; fclose($handle); } else { echo "The file $filename is not writable"; } $tot++; } ?>

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