从php7开始，就有了random_bytes函数。 https://www.php.net/manual/ru/function.random-bytes.php 你可以生成一个这样的随机字符串

<?php
$bytes = random_bytes(5);
var_dump(bin2hex($bytes));
?>

以前的答案会生成不安全或难以输入的密码。

这是安全的，并且提供了用户更有可能实际使用的密码，而不是因为一些薄弱的东西而被丢弃。

// NOTE: On PHP 5.x you will need to install https://github.com/paragonie/random_compat

/**
 * Generate a password that can easily be typed by users.
 *
 * By default, this will sacrifice strength by skipping characters that can cause
 * confusion. Set $allowAmbiguous to allow these characters.
 */
static public function generatePassword($length=12, $mixedCase=true, $numericCount=2, $symbolCount=1, $allowAmbiguous=false, $allowRepeatingCharacters=false)
{
  // sanity check to prevent endless loop
  if ($numericCount + $symbolCount > $length) {
    throw new \Exception('generatePassword(): $numericCount + $symbolCount are too high');
  }

  // generate a basic password with just alphabetic characters
  $chars  = 'qwertyupasdfghjkzxcvbnm';
  if ($mixedCase) {
    $chars .= 'QWERTYUPASDFGHJKZXCVBNML';
  }
  if ($allowAmbiguous) {
    $chars .= 'iol';
    if ($mixedCase) {
      $chars .= 'IO';
    }
  }

  $password = '';
  foreach (range(1, $length) as $index) {
    $char = $chars[random_int(0, strlen($chars) - 1)];

    if (!$allowRepeatingCharacters) {
      while ($char == substr($password, -1)) {
        $char = $chars[random_int(0, strlen($chars) - 1)];
      }
    }

    $password .= $char;
  }


  // add numeric characters
  $takenSubstitutionIndexes = [];

  if ($numericCount > 0) {
    $chars = '23456789';
    if ($allowAmbiguous) {
      $chars .= '10';
    }

    foreach (range(1, $numericCount) as $_) {
      $index = random_int(0, strlen($password) - 1);
      while (in_array($index, $takenSubstitutionIndexes)) {
        $index = random_int(0, strlen($password) - 1);
      }

      $char = $chars[random_int(0, strlen($chars) - 1)];
      if (!$allowRepeatingCharacters) {
        while (substr($password, $index - 1, 1) == $char || substr($password, $index + 1, 1) == $char) {
          $char = $chars[random_int(0, strlen($chars) - 1)];
        }
      }

      $password[$index] = $char;
      $takenSubstitutionIndexes[] = $index;
    }
  }

  // add symbols
  $chars = '!@#$%&*=+?';
  if ($allowAmbiguous) {
    $chars .= '^~-_()[{]};:|\\/,.\'"`<>';
  }

  if ($symbolCount > 0) {
    foreach (range(1, $symbolCount) as $_) {
      $index = random_int(0, strlen($password) - 1);
      while (in_array($index, $takenSubstitutionIndexes)) {
        $index = random_int(0, strlen($password) - 1);
      }

      $char = $chars[random_int(0, strlen($chars) - 1)];
      if (!$allowRepeatingCharacters) {
        while (substr($password, $index - 1, 1) == $char || substr($password, $index + 1, 1) == $char) {
          $char = $chars[random_int(0, strlen($chars) - 1)];
        }
      }

      $password[$index] = $char;
      $takenSubstitutionIndexes[] = $index;
    }
  }

  return $password;
}

如果您非常害怕输入字母表中的字母，不关心字符串安全性，并且只对字母感兴趣，那么这里有一个简单的解决方案

$alphabets = range ("a", "z");
shuffle ($alphabets);
$randomString = substr(implode ("", $alphabets), 3, 17); // adjust according to desired length 

短的方法。

这里有一些生成随机字符串的最短方法

<?php
echo $my_rand_strng = substr(str_shuffle("0123456789abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ"), -15); 

echo substr(md5(rand()), 0, 7);

echo str_shuffle(MD5(microtime()));
?>

试试这个，它可以生成到master的长度。但它简单，适合小字符串。

$master="ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ";
$master_array = str_split($master);
shuffle($master_array);
print_r(implode("",array_slice($master_array,0,10)));

请尝试这个函数来生成一个自定义的随机字母数字字符串:

<?php
  function random_alphanumeric($length) {
    $chars = 'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ12345689';
    $my_string = '';
    for ($i = 0; $i < $length; $i++) {
      $pos = random_int(0, strlen($chars) -1);
      $my_string .= substr($chars, $pos, 1);
    }
    return $my_string;
  }
?>

你可以通过将字符串的长度传递给函数来调整结果，如下所示:

  $test_with_50_items = random_alphanumeric(50); // 50 characters
  echo $test_with_50_items;

示例(test_with_50_items): Y1FypdjVbFCFK6Gh9FDJpe6dciwJEfV6MQGpJqAfuijaYSZ86

如果你需要超过50个字符或更少，只需按你喜欢的方式调用函数:

  $test_with_27_items = random_alphanumeric(27); // 27 characters
  echo $test_with_27_items;

如果你需要两个或更多唯一的字符串，你可以使用while循环，这样你肯定会得到两个唯一的字符串…你可以用更多的弦做同样的事情，唯一的限制是你的幻想……

  $string_1 = random_alphanumeric(50);
  $string_2 = random_alphanumeric(50);
  while ($string_1 == $string_2) {
    $string_1 = random_alphanumeric(50);
    $string_2 = random_alphanumeric(50);
    if ($string_1 != $string_2) {
       break;
    }
  }
  echo $string_1;
  echo "<br>\n";
  echo $string_2;

$string_1： KkvUwia8rbDEV2aChWqm3AgeUZqyrRbUx2AxVhx5s4TSJ2VwA4

$string_2： XraO85YfxBBCInafvwipSOJwLmk6JMWiuWOxYQDnXohcn2D8K6

根据PHP 8.3, random_int()是“默认安全的”