RE: Re[6]: [PHP] asking comment

From: Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2005 18:45:41 +0000
Subject: RE: Re[6]: [PHP] asking comment
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> > JW> I'll take absolutely bullet-proof and handled/supressed warnings, > JW> over relatively bullet-proof. > > That would be fine if your previous solution was absolutely > bullet-proof, or for that matter provided a solution for the > original problem of renaming uploaded files and keeping them > unique. Appending a datetime to a file, or using a loop that > hopes you get a unique name within 100 iterations is wildly > far from "bullet proof" in just about every respect. Oh and generating random filenames from md5(), crossing your fingers and hoping you've got a unique filename is better? Or assume that files don't already exist in the directory? You are going against convential wisdom about ensuring unique filenames. Jared

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