Posted by Chris on 09/29/06 11:27

David Robley wrote:

>Chris wrote:
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>>Hi,
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>>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.
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>>It has to work on Apache 2 / PHP 5.0.4 (Module) / Windows 2000 Server.
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>>Any suggestions on how I might be able to do it?
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>>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.
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>>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?
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>>I'd appreciate any help you could give me.
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>>Thanks,
>>Chris
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>Have you looked at uniqid() ? http://php.net/uniqid
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>Cheers
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Truthfully, I forgot about that option. But I don't think it will work
for me.

If two requests generate and ID at the same microsecond then the ID will
duplicate, and that will not work for me.

I understand there is some slight chance it would duplicate with UUID,
but much less of one than uniqid()

Thanks, I appreciate it

Chris

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