PHP For Loop奇怪的问题

Question

Any reason why this code sometimes only generates 4 character strings?

function genID()
{
    $id     = '';
    $values = '0123456789abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz';

    for($i=0; $i < 5; $i++) :
        $str = substr($values, rand(0, strlen($values)), 1);
        if(!is_nan(acos($str)))
            (mt_rand(0, 1)) ? $str = strtoupper($str) : '';
        $id .= $str;
    endfor;

    return $id; // e.g: ifR8j
}

Answer 1

Try, something simple:

function genID() {
    $id = '';
    $i = $length = 4;
    $possible = "0123456789bcdfghjkmnpqrstvwxyz";
    $possibleChar = strlen($possible) - 1;
    while ($i) {
        $char = $possible[mt_rand(0, $possibleChar)];
        while (!strstr($id, $char)) {
            $id .= $char;
            $i--;
        }
    }

    return $id;
}