Online PHP editor | refs for VS4oA

<?php generate(); // FUNCTION function generate() { $digilist = "0123456789ABCDEFGHJKLMNPQRTUVWXY"; //now we generate a new random ID number using the substrings of the digitList string above $three_chars = NULL; $three_chars .= substr( $digilist, rand( 1, 9 ), 1 ); $three_chars .= substr( $digilist, rand( 10, 31 ), 1 ); $three_chars .= substr( $digilist, rand( 10, 31 ), 1 ); for( $i = 22; $i < 100; $i++) { $id = $three_chars . $i; $key = get_key( $id ); echo $id . "<br />" . $key . "\n"; } } function get_key( $id ) { $digilist = "0123456789ABCDEFGHJKLMNPQRTUVWXY"; //ok so now we need to generate an MD5 hash of our ID $hash = md5($id); //cycle through the hash 16 (length of key) times (in steps of 2 because each hex bytes is 2 digits long) $i = 0; $key = NULL; for ($i; $i < 32; $i+=2) { //here we convert the next hex value to an integer and perform a bitwise AND operation against '31' //31 is the highest substring value in our digit list. $nextdigit = hexdec(substr($hash, $i, 2)) & 31; //if 'i' is divisable by 8 (every 4 cycles) then we want to add "-" if ((($i % 8) == 0) && ($i > 0)) { $key .= "-".substr($digilist, $nextdigit, 1); } else { $key .= substr($digilist, $nextdigit, 1); } } return $key; }