Snippet of the Day

[Baraka]

    public function saltGenerator($limitChars=8) {
        $symb = "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ1234567890!@#$%^&*()-=_+[]{}\\|;:'\",./<>?~`";//letters,numbers,& symbols
        $saltv = '';
        for ($i = 0; $i < $limitChars; $i++)
            $saltv .= $symb[rand(0, strlen($symb) - 1)];
        return $saltv;
    } 

well this is pretty small but its a mini function to generate salt hash value(s) to make secure when inserted in the database for either when a user registers or w/e which then when you want use of the function for making the pass-hash you can do something like this:

$saltv = $saltv ?: $this->saltGenerator();
$phash = md5(md5($saltv) . md5($pass));
$sql->password = $phash;
$sql->salt = $saltv; 

This is really something that can be used in a class to make things easier. Did this off the top of my head so if there is room for improvement let me know

Baraka Reviewed by Baraka on 30th Jun 2012. Snippet of the Day Disclaimer: Ok, just an idea I thought up. Might take off, might not. With that out of the way let me introduce snippet of the day. In this thread you may post one snippet of code a day (at most) that you are particularly proud of. Rules: Snippets must be at most 15 lines long. Try to keep them as short as possible. You must have written them yourself and within the course of the day. Any language is allowed No insulting peoples coding. Although that said, if you just started Rating: 5

[SplitIce]

well this is pretty small but its a mini function to generate salt hash value(s) to make secure when inserted in the database for either when a user registers or w/e which then when you want use of the function for making the pass-hash you can do something like this:

This is really something that can be used in a class to make things easier. Did this off the top of my head so if there is room for improvement let me know

Ask and ye shall receive.

function saltGenerator($limitChars=8) {
    $saltv = '';
    for (; $limitChars; --$limitChars)
        $saltv .= chr(rand(33,126));
    return $saltv;
} 

Best I can think of, also includes a few more symbols in the calculation, see ascii table: http://www.asciitable.com/index/asciifull.gif

[Baraka]

Ask and ye shall receive.

function saltGenerator($limitChars=8) {
    $saltv = '';
    for (; $limitChars; --$limitChars)
        $saltv .= chr(rand(33,126));
    return $saltv;
} 

Best I can think of, also includes a few more symbols in the calculation, see ascii table: http://www.asciitable.com/index/asciifull.gif

thanks for that, makes the function more usable