PHP script to create passwords

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I'm trying to write a PHP script that creates new passwords, but I can't determine how the passwords are actually encrypted.  It looks like Crypt is being used, with salts, but I can't find the salts.  Could you provide the parameters for the password encryption process, so that I might replicate it in PHP?

Thank you.