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UnderlineWords / function.php
Created July 26, 2021 07:59 — forked from hlashbrooke/function.php
Simple way to generate a random string/password in PHP
<?php
function random_password( $length = 8 ) {
$chars = "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ0123456789!@#$%^&*()_-=+;:,.?";
$password = substr( str_shuffle( $chars ), 0, $length );
return $password;
}
?>
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UnderlineWords / strong-passwords.php
Created July 26, 2021 07:59 — forked from tylerhall/strong-passwords.php
A user friendly, strong password generator PHP function.
<?PHP
// Generates a strong password of N length containing at least one lower case letter,
// one uppercase letter, one digit, and one special character. The remaining characters
// in the password are chosen at random from those four sets.
//
// The available characters in each set are user friendly - there are no ambiguous
// characters such as i, l, 1, o, 0, etc. This, coupled with the $add_dashes option,
// makes it much easier for users to manually type or speak their passwords.
//
// Note: the $add_dashes option will increase the length of the password by