note 63765 added to function.microtime

Just to say that what "junk" said about using the timestamp for indexes does make sense in some situations. For instance, I have a deliverables management page that does 2 things: 1) FTP transfer of the file to the server. This operation requires the file to be transfered to a directory specific to that one delivery 2) Create an entry in database with all the details of the delivery, including the filepath for download purposes. If I wanted to use the auto increment function, there would be no way for me to know the index of the DB entry before actually doing the insert. So to work consistently I would have to do: DB insert -> Fetch the index value -> Try to upload the file -> if transfer fails: delete DB entry With timestamp it would look like this: Compute timestamp -> Try file transfer -> DB insert if transfer OK The choice is yours I guess ---- Server IP: 64.71.164.2 Probable Submitter: 62.23.212.63 ---- X-Spam-Status: No, hits=3.1 required=5.0 tests=DATE_MISSING,FROM_NO_LOWER autolearn=no version=2.64 ---- Manual Page -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.microtime.php Edit -- http://master.php.net/note/edit/63765 Del: integrated -- http://master.php.net/note/delete/63765/integrated Del: useless -- http://master.php.net/note/delete/63765/useless Del: bad code -- http://master.php.net/note/delete/63765/bad+code Del: spam -- http://master.php.net/note/delete/63765/spam Del: non-english -- http://master.php.net/note/delete/63765/non-english Del: in docs -- http://master.php.net/note/delete/63765/in+docs Del: other reasons-- http://master.php.net/note/delete/63765 Reject -- http://master.php.net/note/reject/63765 Search -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php