Re: Recommendation for Unique URL

From: Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2003 02:29:47 +0000
Subject: Re: Recommendation for Unique URL
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> What is the best approach to the unique page ID? I thought I would store the > dept. mgrs. email address and the session ID in a db, and use the session ID in > the URL. Do I even need the mgr's email address? Is another approach better? > What have you used? I'd concatenate the employee's email and manager's email, and then use an MD5 hash of it as the unique string. i.e: $unique_id = md5 ( $employee_email . $manager_email ); For more info on what MD5 is, see http://us2.php.net/manual/en/function.md5.php Cheers, Al

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