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Mon. Oct. 9th, 2006 4:57 AM

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serpentskiss

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Creates a random string, usefull for passwords etc.

Use: $password = makeRandomPassword($Length);

If $Length is not specified (ie $password = makeRandomPassword();) then it will default to 8 characters

function makeRandomPassword($Len=8) {

   $salt = 'ABCDEFGHJKLMNPQRSTUXYZabchefghjkmnpqrstuvwxyz()%*^~#_<>;:&23456789';

   srand((double)microtime()*1000000);

      $i = 0;

      $Password = "";

      for ($i=0; $i < $Len; $i++){

         $num = rand() % strlen($salt);

         $Password .= substr($salt, $num, 1);

      }

      return $Password;

}