I’ve had a little bit of downtime at work, and didn’t want to be idle. Luckily for me, I found this awesome subreddit, called /r/dailyprogrammer. They’ve got tons of programming challenges for a wide variety of skills. So I’ve been picking through some simple ones in my down time, and doing some of the easier ones. This one is the most recent challenge I did.
Basically, it just asks you to create a random password generator (like this one) with the ability to specify how many passwords to generate, and how long the string should be. And since the comments are closed, I can’t really submit my solution there, so here is what I came up with, in PHP.
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
</head>
<body>
<div style="text-align: center; margin: 50px;">
<form action="passwords.php" method="post" style="margin-bottom: 25px;" enctype="multipart/form-data">
<label for="inputs"># of passwords: </label>
<input type="text" name="text1" id="text1"><br><br>
<label for="inputs">string length: </label>
<input type="text" name="text2" id="text2"><br><br>
<input type="submit" name="submit" value="Submit">
</form>
<?php
if($_POST["text1"] && $_POST["text2"]) {
$max = intval($_POST["text1"]);
$length = intval($_POST["text2"]);
$count = 0;
$seed = str_split("abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ0123456789!@#$%^&*()_", 1);
$tehstring = "";
while($count < $max) {
for ($i=0; $i < $length; $i++) {
$tehstring .= $seed[mt_rand(0, count($seed)-1)];
}
echo $tehstring . "<br>";
$tehstring ="";
$count++;
}
}
?>
</div>
</body>
<footer>
</footer>
</html>
