Question

I’ve used the manual page on mt_rand(), but I just don’t get how the example makes any sense, I guess this is two parts, what defines the min and max, if mt_rand(5,15) can return 1604716014 I suppose its not limited between 5-15. And how would I regex in some letters to make a password reset generator?

Thanks

Answer 1

Here’s a little bit of script that I like to use to generate a random code:

function generateCode( $charSeed ) { // you can use the username as $charSeed
    $seed = "";
    for ( $i = 1; $i <= 8; $i++ ) {
        $seed .= substr( '0123456789abcdef', rand( 0, 15 ), 1 );
    }
    return md5( $seed . $charSeed ) . $seed;
}

You may have misread the documentation. mt_rand(5,15) or rand(5,15) will absolutely generate a random number between 5 and 15!