Generating passwords is a common task on membership sites. The following function will generate a password according to two parameters: length and strength.

function generatePassword($length=9, $strength=0) {
	$vowels = 'aeuy';
	$consonants = 'bdghjmnpqrstvz';
	if ($strength >= 1) {
		$consonants .= 'BDGHJLMNPQRSTVWXZ';
	}
	if ($strength >= 2) {
		$vowels .= "AEUY";
	}
	if ($strength >= 4) {
		$consonants .= '23456789';
	}
	if ($strength >= 8 ) {
		$vowels .= '@#$%';
	}

	$password = '';
	$alt = time() % 2;
	for ($i = 0; $i < $length; $i++) {
		if ($alt == 1) {
			$password .= $consonants[(rand() % strlen($consonants))];
			$alt = 0;
		} else {
			$password .= $vowels[(rand() % strlen($vowels))];
			$alt = 1;
		}
	}
	return $password;
}

Usage

Simply call the function as shown below. The function accept two parameters, $length, the desired length of the password, and $strength, the desired strength of the password.

echo 'Your password is '.generatePassword(10,8).'';

This will display something like: Your strong password is yQAD#ZyZ#P