试试这个:

function generate_name ($length = LENGTH_IMG_PATH) {
    $image_name = "";
    $possible = "0123456789abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz";

    $i = 0;

    while ($i < $length) {

        $char = substr($possible, mt_rand(0, strlen($possible)-1), 1);

        if (!strstr($image_name, $char)) {
            $image_name .= $char;
            $i++;
        }
    }
    return $image_name;
}

我喜欢使用openssl_random_pseudo_bytes的最后一个注释，但这对我来说不是一个解决方案，因为我仍然必须删除我不想要的字符，而且我无法获得一个设置长度的字符串。这是我的解决方案……

function rndStr($len = 20) {
    $rnd='';
    for($i=0;$i<$len;$i++) {
        do {
            $byte = openssl_random_pseudo_bytes(1);
            $asc = chr(base_convert(substr(bin2hex($byte),0,2),16,10));
        } while(!ctype_alnum($asc));
        $rnd .= $asc;
    }
    return $rnd;
}

我说，把几个最好的答案放在一起- str_suffle和range对我来说是新的:

echo generateRandomString(25); // Example of calling it

function generateRandomString($length = 10) {
    return substr(str_shuffle(implode(array_merge(range(0,9), range('A', 'Z'), range('a', 'z')))), 0, $length);
}

以前的答案会生成不安全或难以输入的密码。

这是安全的，并且提供了用户更有可能实际使用的密码，而不是因为一些薄弱的东西而被丢弃。

// NOTE: On PHP 5.x you will need to install https://github.com/paragonie/random_compat

/**
 * Generate a password that can easily be typed by users.
 *
 * By default, this will sacrifice strength by skipping characters that can cause
 * confusion. Set $allowAmbiguous to allow these characters.
 */
static public function generatePassword($length=12, $mixedCase=true, $numericCount=2, $symbolCount=1, $allowAmbiguous=false, $allowRepeatingCharacters=false)
{
  // sanity check to prevent endless loop
  if ($numericCount + $symbolCount > $length) {
    throw new \Exception('generatePassword(): $numericCount + $symbolCount are too high');
  }

  // generate a basic password with just alphabetic characters
  $chars  = 'qwertyupasdfghjkzxcvbnm';
  if ($mixedCase) {
    $chars .= 'QWERTYUPASDFGHJKZXCVBNML';
  }
  if ($allowAmbiguous) {
    $chars .= 'iol';
    if ($mixedCase) {
      $chars .= 'IO';
    }
  }

  $password = '';
  foreach (range(1, $length) as $index) {
    $char = $chars[random_int(0, strlen($chars) - 1)];

    if (!$allowRepeatingCharacters) {
      while ($char == substr($password, -1)) {
        $char = $chars[random_int(0, strlen($chars) - 1)];
      }
    }

    $password .= $char;
  }


  // add numeric characters
  $takenSubstitutionIndexes = [];

  if ($numericCount > 0) {
    $chars = '23456789';
    if ($allowAmbiguous) {
      $chars .= '10';
    }

    foreach (range(1, $numericCount) as $_) {
      $index = random_int(0, strlen($password) - 1);
      while (in_array($index, $takenSubstitutionIndexes)) {
        $index = random_int(0, strlen($password) - 1);
      }

      $char = $chars[random_int(0, strlen($chars) - 1)];
      if (!$allowRepeatingCharacters) {
        while (substr($password, $index - 1, 1) == $char || substr($password, $index + 1, 1) == $char) {
          $char = $chars[random_int(0, strlen($chars) - 1)];
        }
      }

      $password[$index] = $char;
      $takenSubstitutionIndexes[] = $index;
    }
  }

  // add symbols
  $chars = '!@#$%&*=+?';
  if ($allowAmbiguous) {
    $chars .= '^~-_()[{]};:|\\/,.\'"`<>';
  }

  if ($symbolCount > 0) {
    foreach (range(1, $symbolCount) as $_) {
      $index = random_int(0, strlen($password) - 1);
      while (in_array($index, $takenSubstitutionIndexes)) {
        $index = random_int(0, strlen($password) - 1);
      }

      $char = $chars[random_int(0, strlen($chars) - 1)];
      if (!$allowRepeatingCharacters) {
        while (substr($password, $index - 1, 1) == $char || substr($password, $index + 1, 1) == $char) {
          $char = $chars[random_int(0, strlen($chars) - 1)];
        }
      }

      $password[$index] = $char;
      $takenSubstitutionIndexes[] = $index;
    }
  }

  return $password;
}

<?php
    /**
     * Creates a random string
     *
     * @param (int) $length
     *   Length in characters
     * @param (array) $ranges
     *   (optional) Array of ranges to be used
     *
     * @return
     * Random string
    */
    function random_string($length, $ranges = array('0-9', 'a-z', 'A-Z')) {
        foreach ($ranges as $r) $s .= implode(range(array_shift($r = explode('-', $r)), $r[1]));
        while (strlen($s) < $length) $s .= $s;
        return substr(str_shuffle($s), 0, $length);
    }

    // Examples:
    $l = 100;
    echo '<b>Default:</b> ' . random_string($l) . '<br />';
    echo '<b>Lower Case only:</b> ' . random_string($l, array('a-z')) . '<br />';
    echo '<b>HEX only:</b> ' . random_string($l, array('0-9', 'A-F')) . '<br />';
    echo '<b>BIN only:</b> ' . random_string($l, array('0-1')) . '<br />';

/* End of file */

我总是喜欢使用base64来生成随机密码或其他随机(可打印的)字符串。base64的使用确保了大量的可打印字符可用。

在shell上，我通常这样做:

base64 < /dev/urandom |head -c10

在PHP中也可以做类似的事情。然而，直接从/dev/urandom读取可能会被open_basedir限制所禁止。这就是我得出的结论:

base64_encode(
    join(
        '',
        array_map(
            function($x){ return chr(mt_rand(1,255));},
            range(1,15)
        )
    )
);

为了得到一个真正随机的字符串，我们也需要随机输入。这就是join/array_map所做的。使用uniqid之类的东西是不够的，因为它总是有一个类似的前缀，因为它基本上是一个美化的时间戳。

如果安装了openssl扩展，当然可以使用openssl_random_pseudo_bytes()，这样会更好。