Posted by Sharon O. on 08/11/06 09:13

On Fri, 11 Aug 2006 01:59:53 -0700, howachen wrote:
> Nowadays, many site use encrypted resource ID, rather than plain
> numeric ID, such as the following:
>
>>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_YMigZmUuk
>
> "p_YMigZmUuk" will be mapped into a database unique ID (numeric, auto
> increment).
>
> What kind of encryption in PHP is the best in handling this job?
>
> Thanks.

I'm not sure that's quite "encryption", just that the ID uses a random
mixture of letters instead of a number.

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