programming-examples/php/String/PHP script to generate simple random password [do not use rand() function] from a given string.php

<?php
function password_generate($chars) 
{
  $data = '1234567890ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz';
  return substr(str_shuffle($data), 0, $chars);
}
  echo password_generate(7)."\n";
?>