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Password Text Characters Last Update: 26th July, 2005
Article ID: 61

Introduction
Solution

Introduction

Sometimes a customer will request a new password from a store and the password function will send them characters that they cannot type into their computer.

Solution

Altering the ASCII character to only include up to "z" in the alphabet is the solution. In catalog/includes/functions/general.php about line 1072 change this code:



$char = chr(tep_rand(0,255));

To this code:



$char = chr(tep_rand(0,122));

ASCII character 122 is 'z' so now it only searches up to that character in the ASCII table.