Hello Ben, > 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. Finally I have come to the same solution since the generated UUIDs/GUIDs are intended to be saved into a DB after performing some actions. I was also suggested to use a PECL extension for this but I have no idea how to make it work under Win32 (since it uses *nix's libuuid). Many thanks to all contributors! 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 -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php