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Description

Generate a random password

Syntax

static genRandomPassword($length=8)

Parameter Name	Default Value	Description
$length	8	$length Length of the password to generate

Returns

string Random Password

Defined in

libraries/joomla/user/helper.php

Importing

jimport( 'joomla.user.helper' );

Source Body

public static function genRandomPassword($length = 8)
{
        $salt = "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ0123456789";
        $len = strlen($salt);
        $makepass = '';

        $stat = @stat(__FILE__);
        if (empty($stat) || !is_array($stat)) $stat = array(php_uname());

        mt_srand(crc32(microtime() . implode('|', $stat)));

        for ($i = 0; $i < $length; $i ++) {
                $makepass .= $salt[mt_rand(0, $len -1)];
        }

        return $makepass;
}