Generating confirmation code for an email confirmation

by 
$random_hash = md5(uniqid(rand(), true));

That will be 32 alphanumeric characters long and unique. If you want it to be shorter just use substr():

$random_hash = substr(md5(uniqid(rand(), true)), 16, 16); // 16 characters long

Alternative methods to generate random data include:

$random_hash = md5(openssl_random_pseudo_bytes(32));
$random_hash = md5(mcrypt_create_iv(32, MCRYPT_DEV_URANDOM));

// New in PHP7
$random_hash = bin2hex(random_bytes(32));

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