I use md5(microtime()); -- Ondrej Kulaty "Rob Gould" <gouldimg@xxxxxxx> píse v diskusním príspevku news:1492934866135048840337272044147195196-Webmail@xxxxxxxxx >I have a mySQL database with 700,000 records in it, which are presently >keyed with an "auto-increment" field. > > What I'd like to do is create another field with a field where each and > every record number has a unique keyvalue. Example: "su5e23vlskd" for > records 1, and "34fdfdsglkdj4" for record 2. All that matters is that > it's unique, and isn't a number that can be guessed or an "autoincrement" > number, where a hacker can just figure out the keyvalue by incrementing > numbers. It doesn't matter to me if each keyvalue field is just numbers, > or a number/letter combination - - - all that matters is that each > keyvalue field is unique. Is there an automatic way that mySQL could do > that, or would I need to write a php script to somehow go through each > record and create this unique value? > > -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php