How to generate random password with PHP?

Question

Or is there a software to auto generate random passwords?

Answer 1

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
}