Re: unique identifier

Hello Adv., There is, on phpbuilder (might be phpwizard) a great 'authentication' routine using database. Does just want you are looking for DSig David Tod Sigafoos Tuesday, September 26, 2000, 8:05:33 PM, you wrote: ASD> I am in the designing stages of a student database and ASD> was wondering about generating (using an algorithm) ASD> unique id's by perhaps doing some kind of md5 ASD> calculation on, say, last name & birth date...what ASD> would be necessary to get a consistent (+-8 chars), ASD> unique identifier from such a procedure...has anybody ASD> done something like this? Can you share your ASD> algorithm, code ideas? ASD> Thanks ASD> Luis ASD> PS the list is a little flaky, pls reply to this mail ASD> too, thx. ASD> __________________________________________________ ASD> Do You Yahoo!? ASD> Send instant messages & get email alerts with Yahoo! Messenger. ASD> http://im.yahoo.com/ -- Best regards, David mailto:dsig@teleport.com