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In this example why do they hash a randomly generated piece of salt before hashing it with the password?

From here, in the code return substr(sha1(mt_rand()),0,22); what is the point of taking the sha1 value? It is appended to the password and together they are hashed using Blowfish. Why not just append ...
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PHP crypt() trims the salt as it would be too long

I am using Blowfish with PHP crypt() for password hashing but I noticed something weird. Quoting PHP documentation: CRYPT_BLOWFISH - Blowfish hashing with a salt as follows: "$2a$", "$2x$" or ...