This function GenRandomEmail() generates a random email address of x characters long. This function is very useful to generate a list of non-existing email addresses that you can add on one of your webpages to make the spam bots email lists useless.
<?php
#This function generates a random non-existing mail address.
function GenRandomEmail() {
$tld = array(".com", ".net", ".org", ".biz", ".ru");
$str = "abcdefghijkmnopqrstuvwxyz";
//create non-existing name
for ($i=0; $i<rand(5, 25); $i++) {
$char = rand() % strlen($str);
$tmp = substr($str, $char, 1);
$email = $email . $tmp;
}
//Add the @ sign
$email = $email."@";
//Create non-existing domain
for ($i=0; $i<rand(5, 15); $i++) {
$char = rand() % strlen($str);
$tmp = substr($str, $char, 1);
$email = $email . $tmp;
}
//add top level domain
$email = $email . $tld[array_rand($tld)];
//return the non existing email address
return $email;
}
#Generate a random non-existing email address.
$email = GenRandomEmail();
echo "Random Email: ".$email;
?>
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