On Sun, May 3, 2020 at 2:57 PM Rowan Tommins <rowan.coll...@gmail.com> wrote: > > A common suggestion is to use binhex(random_bytes($desired_length / 2)), > which isn't particularly elegant, and in my experience, the main > requirement is "a unique string of printable/alphanumeric characters, so > limiting to [0-9a-f] is just limiting entropy for no reason. >
Yes, a base_convert(..., 16, 32) around that would help but I'd really prefer a simple function than a chain of 3 functions (even if we had Larry's pipe operator :-p) -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
