While not ideal, you could do a select on a db. MS SQL and MySQL both have
functions to generate unique id's and I imagine the other databases do as
well. While running a "SELECT uuid()" and hitting the database for each
one of these things is annoying, it is one possible pseudo-solution.
On Tue, 25 Oct 2005 06:47:26 -0400, "Denis Gerasimov"
<denis.gerasimov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hello Jasper,
$unique_id = sha1( uniqid( mt_rand(), true ) );
which should be very unique and suitable for most purposes.
I really need millions of unique IDs - hashing is not suitable for this
task
(I think so) :-(. Any more ideas?
Is there a PHP extension or an external library for generating GUIDs?
Have a great day,
Denis S Gerasimov
Web Developer
Team Force LLC
Web: www.team-force.org
RU & Int'l: +7 8362-468693
email: denis.gerasimov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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