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How can I generate a random alphanumeric password?

Aug 12th, 1999 22:29
Nathan Wallace, Brian Schaffner

Try this:

    $myPass = substr(ereg_replace("[^A-Za-z]", "", crypt(time())) .
                         ereg_replace("[^A-Za-z]", "", crypt(time())) .
                         ereg_replace("[^A-Za-z]", "", crypt(time())),
                     0, 6);

the three crypts should ensure that you get enough Alpha characters.
crypt() by itself returns 13 "printable ASCII characters", the first 2
being the salt which is in the set [a-zA-Z0-9./]