OAuthProvider::generateToken
(PECL OAuth >= 1.0.0)
OAuthProvider::generateToken — Generate a random token
Description
$size
[, bool $strong
= FALSE
] ) : stringGenerates a string of pseudo-random bytes.
Parameters
-
size
-
The desired token length, in terms of bytes.
-
strong
-
Setting to
TRUE
means /dev/random will be used for entropy, as otherwise the non-blocking /dev/urandom is used. This parameter is ignored on Windows.
Errors/Exceptions
If the strong
parameter is TRUE
, then an
E_WARNING
level error will be emitted when the
fallback rand() implementation is used to fill
the remaining random bytes (e.g., when not enough random data was found,
initially).
Examples
Example #1 OAuthProvider::generateToken() example
<?php
$p = new OAuthProvider();
$t = $p->generateToken(4);
echo strlen($t), PHP_EOL;
echo bin2hex($t), PHP_EOL;
?>
The above example will output something similar to:
4 b6a82c27
Notes
Note:
When not enough random data is available to the system, this function will fill the remaining random bytes using the internal PHP rand() implementation.
See Also
- openssl_random_pseudo_bytes() - Generate a pseudo-random string of bytes
- mcrypt_create_iv() - Creates an initialization vector (IV) from a random source
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