Category:Contributions -> Plugins
The Random Plugin for CodeIgniter is a simple plugin that allow to generate random string of a specific lenght.
It’s composed by two functions, the first help you to generate random strings, and the second to generate random int.
Plugin home : Random Plugin
How to use :
<?php
$this->load->plugin('random');
echo generate(32);
echo generateInt(8);
?>
Plugin’s code :
<?php if (!defined('BASEPATH')) exit('No direct script access allowed');
/**
* Ramdom string plugin for CodeIgniter applications
* @author : Samuel Sanchez, March 2009, http://www.kromack.com/
* @license : free
* @see http://www.kromack.com/codeigniter/plugin-random-pour-codeigniterplugin-random-pour-codeigniter/
*/
/**
* Return a ramdom string of $lenght size.
*
* @param int $lenght
* @return string
*/
function generate($lenght)
{
$ensemble = array('a', 'b', 'c', 'd', 'e', 'f', 'g', 'h', 'i', 'j', 'k', 'l', 'm', 'n', 'o', 'p', 'q', 'r', 's', 't', 'u', 'v', 'w', 'x', 'y', 'z', '1', '2', '3', '4');
if($lenght > sizeof($ensemble)) {
while($lenght > sizeof($ensemble)) {
foreach($ensemble as $row) {
$ensemble[] = $row;
}
}
}
$ramdom = array_rand($ensemble, $lenght);
$string = '';
foreach($ramdom as $i)
{
$string = $string . $ensemble[$i];
}
return $string;
}
/**
* Return a ramdom int of $lenght size.
*
* @param int $lenght
* @return string
*/
function generateInt($lenght)
{
$ensemble = array('1', '2', '3', '4', '5', '6', '7', '8', '9');
if($lenght > sizeof($ensemble)) {
while($lenght > sizeof($ensemble)) {
foreach($ensemble as $row) {
$ensemble[] = $row;
}
}
}
$ramdom = array_rand($ensemble, $lenght);
$string = '';
foreach($ramdom as $i)
{
$string = $string . $ensemble[$i];
}
return $string;
}
?>