How to generate a random password in php

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PHP: Generate a random password:
                            The followinf function will generate a random password. We just give total length of the password as input. For this we will print the function value, specifying the length of the password to be generated.

Code

<?php
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function generateRandomPassword($cnt)
{
// characters to be included for randomization, 
$chars= str_shuffle('abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ1234567890@#%$*');

// Here specify the 2nd parameter as start position, it can be anything, default 0
return substr($chars,0,$cnt);
}
// Usage 
$password = generateRandomPassword(7); // specify the length of the generated password

echo "Your random password is:".$password; 
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?>