I have a password generator that generates a password baes on content you submited. It generates using stuff like sha1, md5, etc. I have it echo the new pass but of course its huge. If want to make it only 10 characters. So how would I make it echo only 10 characters?

Thanks

It can be done using substr...

Example..

PHP Code:

$password = '11223344556677889900';
echo substr($password, 0,10); 


The output would be '1122334455'.. Displaying the first 10 characters

--James

probably not the most efficiant method, but why not just cut off all chars except the first or last 10?

with php; first 10:
$myPass = substr($myPass, 0, 10);


with php; last 10:
if (strlen($myPass) > 10) {
$myPass = substr($myPass, strlen($myPass)-10, strlen($myPass));
}



since a sha1 or md5 string is pretty random based on the input you should get a pretty secure pw

Edit: Dark-Skys beat me

LoL... thanks everyone . I looked at PHP.net but there are just so many functions i cant find the right one. *remembers what substr does :P*