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Created October 30, 2014 16:15
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gistfile1.php
<?php
// Generates a string of random bytes of the provided number (7 in the example below) and then converts that binary to hexadecimal
// The hexadecimal conversion doubles the string size so the final result in the example below will be 14 characters long.
echo bin2hex(openssl_random_pseudo_bytes(7));
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