Password Creation

[revium]

I am using php/mysql and I want to generate passwords (combination of letters and numbers) automatically. How could I go about doing this?

[Son Nguyen]

There are quite a lot of random password generators at zend.com (Code Library/Algorithm)

[Karl]

$password_length = 10;
srand ((double) microtime() * 1000000);
$password = md5 (uniqid (rand()));
$password = substr( $password, 0, $password_length );

Would give you a password that is 10 chars long. You can change how long you want it to be by changing the $password_length variable.

[revium]

Thanks guys, this is just what I needed.

[TWTCommish]

Cool - thanks for the code man - I don't know if I'll ever need it, but that's something I'd always wondered about - the password is based on the timestamp, right?

[Robo]

Here's an article on generating prononceable passwords:

http://www.phpbuilder.com/columns/jesus19990502.php3

[Vinay]

i generally take an array of characters I like (letters, numbers), pick a random number a couple times, pick letters out of the array , ofcourse using srand, etc, etc... seems to work good, another thing to try is to make an MD5 hash off something random, and pick a bunch of characters from it

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