Posted by Jasper Bryant-Greene on 10/25/05 12:12

On Tue, 2005-10-25 at 13:01 +0400, Denis Gerasimov wrote:
> I am in a need of GUID generator but it seems that PHP doesn't have this as
> a built-in feature.
>
> I looked at http://pear.php.net <http://pear.php.net/> and
> http://pecl.php.net <http://pecl.php.net/> but found nothing suitable
> there.
>
> I really need "true" unique identifiers - md5() hash is not OK because of
> the "birthday paradox".
>
> Can anyone recommend a way for solving this trouble?

I use:

$unique_id = sha1( uniqid( mt_rand(), true ) );

which should be very unique and suitable for most purposes.

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