Docs: Improve the usefulness of docs for `wp_generate_password()` by noting the use of wp_rand() vs `rand()` or `mt_rand()`.

Props webdevmattcrom.
Fixes #42782.


git-svn-id: https://develop.svn.wordpress.org/trunk@42373 602fd350-edb4-49c9-b593-d223f7449a82
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Drew Jaynes 2017-12-04 22:39:29 +00:00
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@ -2312,6 +2312,9 @@ if ( ! function_exists( 'wp_generate_password' ) ) :
/**
* Generates a random password drawn from the defined set of characters.
*
* Uses wp_rand() is used to create passwords with far less predictability
* than similar native PHP functions like `rand()` or `mt_rand()`.
*
* @since 2.5.0
*
* @param int $length Optional. The length of password to generate. Default 12.
@ -2348,7 +2351,7 @@ endif;
if ( ! function_exists( 'wp_rand' ) ) :
/**
* Generates a random number
* Generates a random number.
*
* @since 2.6.2
* @since 4.4.0 Uses PHP7 random_int() or the random_compat library if available.