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PHP Generate Memorable Password: Generate random passwords from words of a RSS feed

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Chris Jeffries

This class can generate random passwords from words of a RSS feed.

It can retrieve a RSS feed from a given URL and extracts the list of words in the feed items.

It picks one random word from the RSS feed as basis of a given password to be generated.

The required word length, number of words and the url to read from are configurable parameters.

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PHP Programming Innovation award nominee
February 2017
Number 11		 Many sites generate passwords for users that want access for the first time or recover a lost password. However, many times those passwords are made of many random characters that are hard to remember.

This class provides a more user friendly solution by using real words as basis to generate random passwords. These words are taken from test in RSS feeds, so they are easy to remember because they are real words, not a random set of text characters.

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Example

<!DOCTYPE HTML>
<head>
<title>ppRandPass example</title>
</head>
<body>
<h1>ppRandPass example</h1>
<?php
include ('ppRandPass.class.php');
$oPass = new ppRandPass();
$oPass->url = 'http://feeds.bbci.co.uk/news/world/rss.xml#';
                           //The url of a constantly changing RSS feed
//The remaining properties need not be set if you are happy with the defaults
$oPass->minlength = 4; //Only words of 4 letters or more chosed (default is 5)
$oPass->maxlength = 6; //Only words of 6 letters or less chosen (defualt is 8)
$oPass->numwords = 3; //Three words randomly picked from list (default is 2)
$oPass->discard_front = 2; //The first two words retrieved will not be used (default is 0)
$oPass->discard_back = 3; //The last three words retrieved will not be used (default is 0)

echo "Randomly generated password:<b> {$oPass->password} </b>";
?>
</body>
</html>

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