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One-liner password generation in PHP
2 points by sgarbi on Jan 19, 2013 | hide | past | favorite | 4 comments
How would you improve this one-liner?

$password = substr(str_shuffle('abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ0123456789!@#$'),0 , 10);




$password = str_shuffle((substr(str_shuffle('ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ'),0,3).substr(str_shuffle('abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz'),0,3).substr(str_shuffle('0123456789'),0,2).substr(str_shuffle('!@#$'),0,2)));


With that it will always contain 3 capital letters, 3 lower case letters, 2 numbers, and 2 punctuation.


I would remove "i"/"I", or 1. I would similarly remove one of zero and the letter-o.

These can be confusing to people, depending on fonts.


variable length maybe




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