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Abe on 01/30/08


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Random String

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  1. <?php
  2. function randomStr($len = 16) {
  3. 	$base = 'ABCDEFGHKLMNOPQRSTWXYZabcdefghjkmnpqrstwxyz123456789';
  4. 	$max = strlen($base)-1;
  5. 	$activatecode = '';
  6. 	mt_srand((double)microtime()*1000000);
  7. 	while (strlen($activatecode) < $len+1)
  8. 		$activatecode .= $base{mt_rand(0,$max)};
  9. 	return $activatecode;
  10. }
  11.  
  12. echo randomStr(8);
  13. ?>

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