How to generate random password with PHP?

Question

Or is there a software to auto generate random passwords?

Answer 1

This function will generate more stronger password than most woted solution:

function generatePassword($size=8){
    $p = openssl_random_pseudo_bytes(ceil($size*0.67), $crypto_strong);
    $p = str_replace('=', '', base64_encode($p));
    $p = strtr($p, '+/', '^*');
    return substr($p, 0, $size);      
}

Each character of password will be [A-Z] or [a-z] or ^ or *

Answer 2

This will help to create random password :

<?php
function generatePassword ($length = 8)
{
  $genpassword = "";
  $possible = "0123456789abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ"; 
  $i = 0; 
  while ($i < $length) { 
    $char = substr($possible, mt_rand(0, strlen($possible)-1), 1);
    if (!strstr($genpassword, $char)) { 
      $genpassword .= $char;
      $i++;
    }
  }
  return $genpassword;
} 
?>
<input type="text" value="<?php echo generatePassword(); ?>">

Here is the working example (Demo)

Answer 3

This is how I do it.

$pw = ""; 
for ($i = 0; $i < 13; $i++)
{
    $pw .= chr(rand(33, 126));
}

Answer 4

I like to shuffle array of random chars

$a = str_split("abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXY0123456789");
shuffle($a);
echo implode($a); //maxlength
echo "\n".substr( implode($a), 0, 10 ); //instead of 10 => any length

//As function:
function getMeRandomPwd($length){
    $a = str_split("abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXY0123456789"); 
    shuffle($a);
    return substr( implode($a), 0, $length );
}
echo "\n".getMeRandomPwd(8)."\n".getMeRandomPwd(11);
// Outpus something like:
// 3Ai4Xf6R2I8bYGUmKgB9jpqo7ncV5teuQhkOHJCNrTP0sLFd1wxSMlEWvyaD
// 3Ai4Xf6R2I
// JsBKWFDa
// gfxsjr3dX70

If you need the password to be longer, just concatenate charlist a few times :)

Answer 5

Here's a simple solution. It will contain lowercase letters and numbers.

substr(str_shuffle(strtolower(sha1(rand() . time() . "my salt string"))),0, $PASSWORD_LENGTH);

Here's A stronger solution randomly generates the character codes in the desired character range for a random length within a desired range.

function generateRandomPassword() {
  //Initialize the random password
  $password = '';

  //Initialize a random desired length
  $desired_length = rand(8, 12);

  for($length = 0; $length < $desired_length; $length++) {
    //Append a random ASCII character (including symbols)
    $password .= chr(rand(32, 126));
  }

  return $password;
}

Answer 6

I use st_split and implode function:

function genarateKey(){
    $limit= 8;
    $chars= 'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvxwyz1234567890!@#$%^&*()_+=-[]{}\|ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVXWYZ';
    $chararray= str_split($chars);
    $gen=array();
    for($i=0;$i<$limit;$i++){
        $index=rand(0,strlen($chars)-1);
        $gen[$i]= $chararray[$index];
    }
    return implode($gen); //converts array to string
}