On Tue, 2005-10-25 at 13:01 +0400, Denis Gerasimov wrote: > I am in a need of GUID generator but it seems that PHP doesn't have this as > a built-in feature. > > I looked at http://pear.php.net <http://pear.php.net/> and > http://pecl.php.net <http://pecl.php.net/> but found nothing suitable > there. > > I really need "true" unique identifiers - md5() hash is not OK because of > the "birthday paradox". > > Can anyone recommend a way for solving this trouble? I use: $unique_id = sha1( uniqid( mt_rand(), true ) ); which should be very unique and suitable for most purposes. -- Jasper Bryant-Greene General Manager Album Limited e: jasper@xxxxxxxxxxx w: http://www.album.co.nz/ p: 0800 4 ALBUM (0800 425 286) or +64 21 232 3303 a: PO Box 579, Christchurch 8015, New Zealand -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
