Re: Creating Unique Values

Thanks Andrew, I decided to use the function called erm.... the one that I can never remember what it's called without looking in the manual. microtime(); that's it. Heres what I did: $uniquevalue = microtime(); $uniquevalue = ereg_replace ("\.", "", $uniquevalue); #get rid of the period. setcookie("cookieset", $uniquevalue); As microtime() takes it start time from the Unix Epoch (0:00:00 January 1, 1970 GMT) the chances of a duplicate are......shall we say slim. Thanks Mate. Andy M.D. www.databasewatch.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Andrew Hill" <ahill@openlinksw.com> To: "Andy Woolley" <andy@milonic.com>; <php-general@lists.php.net> Sent: Wednesday, October 04, 2000 5:28 PM Subject: RE: [PHP] Creating Unique Values > Why don't you just use unix time? This is unique at a certain point, and > will never be repeated. > > Best regards, > Andrew > ---------------------------------------------------- > Andrew Hill > Director Technology Evangelism > OpenLink Software > http://www.openlinksw.com > XML & E-Business Infrastructure Technology Provider > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Andy Woolley [mailto:andy@milonic.com] > > Sent: Wednesday, October 04, 2000 12:30 PM > > To: php-general@lists.php.net > > Subject: [PHP] Creating Unique Values > > > > > > Greetings people, > > > > Does any have a script that creates unique values in PHP. > > > > What I need is to do is create a value that will never be used again. I > > think that a combination of date, time, milliseconds and some random chars > > would be good. > > > > If I can't get one pre-done, then I'll build one and post it to > > you all, it > > shouldnt be too complicated to do, but I'm in a rush and I'm > > getting lazy in > > my old age. > > > > Cheers Folks. > > > > Andy Woolley > > M.D. > > www.databasewatch.com > > > > > > -- > > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > > For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net > > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net > > > > > > > >