note 108693 deleted from function.base-convert by googleguy

Note Submitter: wyattstorch42 at gmail dot com ---- If you are building a flat-file system and you do not have the convenience of MySQL's AUTO_INCREMENT feature, you might have a little trouble coming up with incremental identifiers, assuming you rearrange your elements. Rather than storing an integer in a text file and referencing/incrementing it constantly, I use the time() function to generate a unique identifier and base_convert() to make it a little shorter (and hence, more manageable). Obviously, the limitation is creation operation per second. <?php function generate_id($timestamp = null){ if($timestamp == null) $timestamp = time(); return base_convert($timestamp, 10, 36); } ?>