function oldP ($length = 8)

{

    $password = "";

    $possible = "0123456789bcdfghjkmnpqrstvwxyz";

    $i = 0;

    while ($i < $length) {     

        $char = substr($possible, mt_rand(0, strlen($possible)-1), 1);

        if (!strstr($password, $char)) {

            $password .= $char;

            $i++;

        }

    }

    return $password;

}

function newP ( $length = 8, $a = "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvqxyz0123456789" )

{

    return substr ( str_shuffle ( str_repeat ( $a, $length ) ), 0, $length );

}