What do you use to generate random string in PHP?

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Arnold84

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Jan 16, 2013, 4:59:58 AM1/16/13
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Hi,

I would like to generate a random string in PHP.

What do you use to do that?

Thanks.

Julien

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Jan 16, 2013, 6:12:55 AM1/16/13
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    function str_shuffle_unicode($str) {
        $tmp = preg_split("//u", $str, -1, PREG_SPLIT_NO_EMPTY);
        shuffle($tmp);
        return join("", $tmp);
    }

    function generateRandomStringAlphaNum($length = 10)
    {   
        return substr($this->str_shuffle_unicode("0123456789abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZéèàçùëêô,- "), 0, $length);
    }

  Julien
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