PHP Math Exercises: Create a human-readable random string for a captcha

PHP math: Exercise-11 with Solution

Write a PHP function to create a human-readable random string for a captcha.

Sample Solution:

PHP Code:

<?php
  function random_string($length = 5)
{ 
$chars = 'bcdfghjklmnpqrstvwxyzaeiou';

for ($x = 0; $x < $length; $x++)
{
$result .= ($x%2) ? $chars[mt_rand(19, 23)] : $chars[mt_rand(0, 18)];
}

return $result;
}
echo random_string();
?>

Sample Output:

rasyn

Flowchart :

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