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/**
* Generate a random string, using a cryptographically secure
* pseudorandom number generator (random_int)
*
* This function uses type hints now (PHP 7+ only), but it was originally
* written for PHP 5 as well.
*
* For PHP 7, random_int is a PHP core function
* For PHP 5.x, depends on https://github.com/paragonie/random_compat
*
* @param int $length How many characters do we want?
* @param string $keyspace A string of all possible characters
* to select from
* @return string
*/
function random_str(
int $length = 64,
string $keyspace = '0123456789abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ'
): string {
if ($length < 1) {
throw new \RangeException("Length must be a positive integer");
}
$pieces = [];
$max = mb_strlen($keyspace, '8bit') - 1;
for ($i = 0; $i < $length; ++$i) {
$pieces []= $keyspace[random_int(0, $max)];
}
return implode('', $pieces);
}
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function generateRandomString($length = 25) {
$characters = '0123456789abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ';
$charactersLength = strlen($characters);
$randomString = '';
for ($i = 0; $i < $length; $i++) {
$randomString .= $characters[rand(0, $charactersLength - 1)];
}
return $randomString;
}
//usage
$myRandomString = generateRandomString(5);
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you can use rand() function for that in php.
Example:
Generate random numbers between 1 to 50
<?php
echo rand(1,50);
?>
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//generates 13 character random unique alphanumeric id
echo uniqid();
//output - 5e6d873a4f597
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function RandomString($length = 6) {
$original_string = array_merge(range(0,29), range('a','z'), range('A', 'Z'));
$original_string = implode("", $original_string);
return substr(str_shuffle($original_string), 0, $length);
}
echo RandomString(6);
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function random_chars($length = 12)
{
$chars = "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ0123456789!@#$%^&*()_?,.";
$rand_chars = substr( str_shuffle( $chars ), 0, $length );
return $rand_chars;
}
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$random = Str::random(20); // the other anwsers on codegrepper gave me headache
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phpCopy<?php
$Random_str = uniqid();
echo "Random String:", $Random_str, "\n";
?>
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function RandomString($length = 10) {
return substr(str_shuffle(str_repeat($x='0123456789abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ', ceil($length/strlen($x)) )),1,$length);
}
echo RandomString();
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function rand_str() {
$characters = '0123456789-=+{}[]:;@#~.?/>,<|\!"£$%^&*()abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ';
$randomstr = '';
for ($i = 0; $i < random_int(50, 100); $i++) {
$randomstr .= $characters[rand(0, strlen($characters) - 1)];
}
return $randomstr;
}
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function generateRandomString($length = 10) {
$characters = '0123456789abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ';
$charactersLength = strlen($characters);
$randomString = '';
for ($i = 0; $i < $length; $i++) {
$randomString .= $characters[rand(0, $charactersLength - 1)];
}
return $randomString;
}
Output the random string with the call below:
// Echo the random string.
// Optionally, you can give it a desired string length.
echo generateRandomString();