从php7开始，就有了random_bytes函数。 https://www.php.net/manual/ru/function.random-bytes.php 你可以生成一个这样的随机字符串

<?php
$bytes = random_bytes(5);
var_dump(bin2hex($bytes));
?>

具有上面讨论的一些函数的类。

$options['numeric'] = true;
$options['uppercase'] = true;
$options['lowercase'] = true;
$new = new RandomString($options);

class RandomString
{
    /**
     * @var array
     */
    private $default = ['numeric' => true, 'uppercase' => true, 'lowercase' => true];

    /**
     * @var array
     */
    private $options;

    /**
     * array
     */
    private $whitelist = ['numeric', 'uppercase', 'lowercase'];

    /**
     * RandomString constructor.
     *
     * @param array $options
     */
    public function __construct(array $options = [])
    {
        $this->options = $this->default;
        if(!empty($options))
        {
            $options = array_intersect_key($options, array_flip($this->whitelist));
            if(empty($options))
            {
                $this->options = $this->default;
            }else
            {
                $this->options = $options;
            }
        }
    }

    /**
     * @return string
     */
    private function returnCharacters(){

        $options = $this->options;

        $numbers = '0123456789';
        $uppercase = 'ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ';
        $lowercase = "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz";

        $characters = '';
        if(isset($options['numeric']) && $options['numeric'] === true){
            $characters .= $numbers;
        }

        if(isset($options['uppercase']) && $options['uppercase'] === true){
            $characters .= $uppercase;
        }

        if(isset($options['lowercase']) && $options['lowercase'] === true){
            $characters .= $lowercase;
        }
        return $characters;
    }

    /**
     * @param $length
     * @param $quantity
     * @return string
     */
    public function randomString($length, $quantity) {

        $string = '';
        $characters = $this->returnCharacters();

        for ($j = 0; $j < $quantity; $j++) {
            for($i = 0; $i < $length; $i++){
                $string .= $characters[mt_rand(0, strlen($characters) - 1)];
            }
            $string .= "\n";
        }
        return $string;
    }

    /**
     * @return array
     */
    public function getOptions()
    {
        return $this->options;
    }

    /**
     * @return mixed
     */
    public function getWhitelist()
    {
        return $this->whitelist;
    }

具体回答这个问题，有两个问题:

当你回显$randstring时，它不在作用域内。 字符在循环中没有连接在一起。

以下是更正后的代码片段:

function generateRandomString($length = 10) {
    $characters = '0123456789abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ';
    $charactersLength = strlen($characters);
    $randomString = '';
    for ($i = 0; $i < $length; $i++) {
        $randomString .= $characters[random_int(0, $charactersLength - 1)];
    }
    return $randomString;
}

用下面的调用输出随机字符串:

// Echo the random string.
// Optionally, you can give it a desired string length.
echo generateRandomString();

请注意，这个答案的以前版本使用rand()而不是random_int()，因此生成可预测的随机字符串。因此，根据这个答案的建议，它被更改为更安全。

注意:str_shuffle()内部使用rand()，不适合用于加密目的(例如生成随机密码)。你需要一个安全的随机数生成器。它也不允许字符重复。

还有一种方法。

UPDATED(现在这会生成任意长度的字符串):

function generateRandomString($length = 10) {
    return substr(str_shuffle(str_repeat($x='0123456789abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ', ceil($length/strlen($x)) )),1,$length);
}

echo  generateRandomString();  // OR: generateRandomString(24)

就是这样。：）

Laravel 5框架中的辅助函数

/**
 * Generate a "random" alpha-numeric string.
 *
 * Should not be considered sufficient for cryptography, etc.
 *
 * @param  int  $length
 * @return string
 */
function str_random($length = 16)
{
    $pool = '0123456789abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ';

    return substr(str_shuffle(str_repeat($pool, $length)), 0, $length);
}

要把它放在一行中，试试这个:

$str = substr(str_shuffle(str_repeat("0123456789abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ", 5)), 0, $length);