Create randomized token with specific length

Random token generation is one of those issues which comes up way to many times while coding. There are a lot of ways to solve it but the "random" part is the difficult one. With PHP 7 there is a new way with random_int() to generate a truly random token:

/**
 * Generate token with length
 *
 * @param int $length
 *
 * @return string
 */
public function generateToken($length)
{
    $allowedCharacters = '0123456789abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz';

    $token = '';
    $allowedCharactersLength = mb_strlen($allowedCharacters, '8bit') - 1;
    for ($i = 0; $i < $length; ++$i) {
        $token .= $allowedCharacters[random_int(0, $allowedCharactersLength)];
    }

    return $token;
}