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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP 7.1 - should we add a random_str() function?
From: j.boggiano@seld.be (Jordi Boggiano)

On 30/09/2015 17:15, Scott Arciszewski wrote:
> This is probably answerable by a quick yes/no and shouldn't need a ton
> of bikeshedding, but if that happens anyway I apologize in advance.
>
> I think random_bytes() and random_int() are great; they provide a
> much-needed building block in PHP 7.0. However, I do worry a bit that
> the most common use for random_int() (generating a random string of a
> fixed length with a given character set) will be reinvented over and
> over again, and rarely consistently.
>
> I would propose a random_str() function that behaves similar to this
> userland snippet: http://stackoverflow.com/a/32870871/2224584

Sounds great, and the amount of different answers on this stack overflow 
question highlights the problem very well IMO.

Cheers

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