Posted by The Natural Philosopher on 01/10/08 16:21

Mikhail Kovalev wrote:
> I'm storing all uploaded files in one directory -- with the same
> temporary names they are given by PHP. I do so because I don't want an
> uploaded file to overwrite an already exisiting one, so I need to know
> whether these names are unique only per session and can reappear at a
> different time, or are they unique for every upload... ever?
>
> Thanks!=)
>
> mvh
> M. K.
Ever is a long time. I think they are compounded from the date in milli
seconds and a php string. So maybe when the whole unix time system rolls
around in 2025, you might see some duplicates..

Or something like that.

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