Re: Unique Object Instance ID..?

On Sat, 10 Jan 2009 23:31:29 +0000, Nathan Rixham wrote: >[...] >all I need is a completely unique id for each object instance that can >never be repeated at any time, even in a multiserver environment (and >without using any kind of incremented value from a db table or third >party app) Have you looked at uniqid() ? http://au2.php.net/manual/en/function.uniqid.php I use it in a couple of places, converted to a more compressed format: $id = explode('.', uniqid(rand(), TRUE), 2); $id = base_convert($id[0], 16, 36) . '.' . base_convert($id[1], 16, 36); Returns stuff like this: 9xm1k6oodk8o00s4wc.50nplu -- Ross McKay, Toronto, NSW Australia "Let the laddie play wi the knife - he'll learn" - The Wee Book of Calvin