Re: GUID or any other unique IDs
| From: | Ben Litton | Date: | Tue, 25 Oct 2005 13:30:21 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: GUID or any other unique IDs | ||
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While not ideal, you could do a select on a db. MS SQL and MySQL both have functions to generate unique id's and I imagine the other databases do as well. While running a "SELECT uuid()" and hitting the database for each one of these things is annoying, it is one possible pseudo-solution.
On Tue, 25 Oct 2005 06:47:26 -0400, "Denis Gerasimov" <denis.gerasimov@team-force.org> wrote:
Hello Jasper,-- Using Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/mail/$unique_id = sha1( uniqid( mt_rand(), true ) ); which should be very unique and suitable for most purposes.I really need millions of unique IDs - hashing is not suitable for this task (I think so) :-(. Any more ideas? Is there a PHP extension or an external library for generating GUIDs? Have a great day, Denis S Gerasimov Web Developer Team Force LLC Web: www.team-force.org RU & Int'l: +7 8362-468693email: denis.gerasimov@team-force.org