note 57444 deleted from function.microtime by nlopess
| From: | nlopess@php.net | Date: | Tue, 04 Oct 2005 18:13:23 +0000 |
| Subject: | note 57444 deleted from function.microtime by nlopess | ||
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Note Submitter: php dot net at sharpdreams dot com
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Contrary to what "cristianDOTzuddas-NOSPAM-com" states below, do NOT use his function to
create unique IDs. Use a real unique function such as uniqid(). See the examples on that http://php.net/uniqid and the user comments for ensuring that you
indeed do have a unique ID.
(Why is his example bad? It will produce the same unique identifier if the code runs twice at the
same time. Technically the statements could only execute simultaneously on a system with 2 or more
processors but compounding rounding and floating point errors will make a collision more likely.)