php-doc-en/reference/oauth/oauthprovider/generatetoken.xml
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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
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<refentry xml:id="oauthprovider.generatetoken" xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">
<refnamediv>
<refname>OAuthProvider::generateToken</refname>
<refpurpose>Generate a random token</refpurpose>
</refnamediv>
<refsect1 role="description">
&reftitle.description;
<methodsynopsis>
<modifier>final</modifier> <modifier>public</modifier> <modifier>static</modifier> <type>string</type><methodname>OAuthProvider::generateToken</methodname>
<methodparam><type>int</type><parameter>size</parameter></methodparam>
<methodparam choice="opt"><type>bool</type><parameter>strong</parameter><initializer>&false;</initializer></methodparam>
</methodsynopsis>
<para>
Generates a <type>string</type> of pseudo-random bytes.
</para>
</refsect1>
<refsect1 role="parameters">
&reftitle.parameters;
<variablelist>
<varlistentry>
<term><parameter>size</parameter></term>
<listitem>
<para>
The desired token length, in terms of bytes.
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><parameter>strong</parameter></term>
<listitem>
<para>
Setting to &true; means <literal>/dev/random</literal> will be used for
entropy, as otherwise the non-blocking <literal>/dev/urandom</literal> is used.
This parameter is ignored on Windows.
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
</variablelist>
</refsect1>
<refsect1 role="returnvalues">
&reftitle.returnvalues;
<para>
The generated token, as a <type>string</type> of bytes.
</para>
</refsect1>
<refsect1 role="errors">
&reftitle.errors;
<para>
If the <parameter>strong</parameter> parameter is &true;, then an
<constant>E_WARNING</constant> level error will be emitted when the
fallback <function>rand</function> implementation is used to fill
the remaining random bytes (e.g., when not enough random data was found,
initially).
</para>
</refsect1>
<refsect1 role="examples">
&reftitle.examples;
<example>
<title><function>OAuthProvider::generateToken</function> example</title>
<programlisting role="php">
<![CDATA[
<?php
$p = new OAuthProvider();
$t = $p->generateToken(4);
echo strlen($t), PHP_EOL;
echo bin2hex($t), PHP_EOL;
?>
]]>
</programlisting>
&example.outputs.similar;
<screen>
<![CDATA[
4
b6a82c27
]]>
</screen>
</example>
</refsect1>
<refsect1 role="notes">
&reftitle.notes;
<note>
<para>
When not enough random data is available to the system, this function will
fill the remaining random bytes using the internal PHP <function>rand</function>
implementation.
</para>
</note>
</refsect1>
<refsect1 role="seealso">
&reftitle.seealso;
<simplelist>
<member><function>openssl_random_pseudo_bytes</function></member>
<member><function>mcrypt_create_iv</function></member>
</simplelist>
</refsect1>
</refentry>
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