Posted by David Robley on 09/22/05 04:29

Chris wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Pretty soon I'm going to be needing to generate a unique identifier in a
> script. I'm looking into how to go about doing it now.
>
> It has to work on Apache 2 / PHP 5.0.4 (Module) / Windows 2000 Server.
>
> Any suggestions on how I might be able to do it?
>
> I've noticed the uuid PECL package, which looks like it could work for
> me, but I'm not sure it will work on Windows, or where to get it if it
> did.
>
> I have access to Visual Studio 6, so I think I could compile it if I had
> to. Anyone have experience compiling PECL extensions on Windows?
>
> I'd appreciate any help you could give me.
>
> Thanks,
> Chris

Have you looked at uniqid() ? http://php.net/uniqid


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David Robley

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