Hi,
Le Wed, 30 Sep 2015 18:15:09 +0200, Scott Arciszewski
<sc...@paragonie.com> a écrit:
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
Function prototype:
string random_str( int $length, string $charset)
Would return a string or throw an Error|Exception (e.g. invalid input
parameters, or the operating system's CSPRNG begins to melt).
I can write up an RFC for this, with a patch targeting 7.1, if anyone
is interested in it.
Scott Arciszewski
Chief Development Officer
Paragon Initiative Enterprises <https://paragonie.com>
I'm interested, as I generate random strings for default passwords. I can
stay with my current system, but it would be sweet to shorten my code a
little bit :)
Regards.
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