PHP code for generating decent-looking coupon codes (mix of letters and numbers)

Question

For an ecommerce site I want to generate a random coupon code that looks better than a randomly generated value. It should be a readable coupon code, all in uppercase with n

Answer 1

http://webarto.com/35/php-random-string-generator

Here you go.

function randr($j = 8){
$string = "";
    for($i=0;$i < $j;$i++){
        srand((double)microtime()*1234567);
        $x = mt_rand(0,2);
        switch($x){
            case 0:$string.= chr(mt_rand(97,122));break;
            case 1:$string.= chr(mt_rand(65,90));break;
            case 2:$string.= chr(mt_rand(48,57));break;
        }
    }
return strtoupper($string); //to uppercase
}

Answer 2

Try this:

substr(base_convert(sha1(uniqid(mt_rand())), 16, 36), 0, 10)

Answer 3

you can find a lot of function in php rand manual
http://php.net/manual/en/function.rand.php

i like this one

   <?php
//To Pull 8 Unique Random Values Out Of AlphaNumeric

//removed number 0, capital o, number 1 and small L
//Total: keys = 32, elements = 33
$characters = array(
"A","B","C","D","E","F","G","H","J","K","L","M",
"N","P","Q","R","S","T","U","V","W","X","Y","Z",
"1","2","3","4","5","6","7","8","9");

//make an "empty container" or array for our keys
$keys = array();

//first count of $keys is empty so "1", remaining count is 1-7 = total 8 times
while(count($keys) < 8) {
    //"0" because we use this to FIND ARRAY KEYS which has a 0 value
    //"-1" because were only concerned of number of keys which is 32 not 33
    //count($characters) = 33
    $x = mt_rand(0, count($characters)-1);
    if(!in_array($x, $keys)) {
       $keys[] = $x;
    }
}

foreach($keys as $key){
   $random_chars .= $characters[$key];
}
echo $random_chars;
?>

Answer 4

function generateCouponCode($length = 8) {
  $chars = 'ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ';
  $ret = '';
  for($i = 0; $i < $length; ++$i) {
    $random = str_shuffle($chars);
    $ret .= $random[0];
  }
  return $ret;
}