Introducing RandGen, CodeIgniter library for...

Hello everyone, RandGen is a small lightweight CodeIgniter library for generating random strings.

Requirements

• PHP >=5.2.4
  

Dependencies

• None
  

Download|Contribute|View documentation => on Github

Usage sample:

PHP Code:

<?php
 class My_Class extends CI_Controller {
    public function index() {
      // Load the library
      $this->load->library('rand-gen');
    
      // Random string of 100 characters using the default combination
      $randString = $this->rand_gen->generate(100);
      echo $randString;

      // Random string of 30 characters containing only alphabets
      $randAlphaString = $this->rand_gen->generate(30, 'alpha');
      echo $randAlphaString;

      // Random string of 250 characters containing only numbers
      $randNumString = $this->rand_gen->generate(250, 'numeric');
      echo $randNumString;

      // Random string of 50 characters containing only alphabets and numbers
      $randAlphanumString = $this->rand_gen->generate(50, 'alpha-numeric');
      echo $randAlphanumString; 
  }
}
?>

CI has the random_string() function inside the string helper. What are the benefits of this library compared to that?