Richard Castera

function generate_password($int_num_of_chars)
{  
    if (is_numeric($int_num_of_chars) && ($int_num_of_chars > 0))
    {
        $str_chars = "0123456789abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ_";

        for ($i = 0; $i < $int_num_of_chars; $i ++)  
        {
            $str_password .= $str_chars[rand(0, strlen($str_chars)-1)];
         }
    }
       
  […]

This is a function I use to display the ellipses when I want to truncate and display a summary of a larger body of text.

function truncate_string($int_length = 0, $str_text = "")
{
    if ($int_length == 0)
    {
        return $str_text;
    }
       
    if(strlen($str_text) > $int_length)
    { […]