Re: Re: Random Unique ID

On 3/22/07, Roman Neuhauser <neuhauser@sigpipe.cz> wrote:

# turnermm02@shaw.ca / 2007-03-21 21:03:35 -0500: Mark wrote:

ccspencer@softhome.net wrote:

Hello, I want to add a random unique ID to a Mysql table. Collisions are unlikely but possible so to handle those cases I'd like to regenerate the random ID until there is no collision and only then add my row. Any suggestions for a newbie as to the right way to go about doing this? Best, Craig

. I suggest looking into a GUID sort of thing, it is all coded for you and it works just like you want.

If you are running Linux, you can get this using: $GUID = exec("uuidgen"); http://www.ossp.org/pkg/lib/uuid

Note that this doesn't gonna work when safe mode is on..!

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