Posted by "Ben Litton" on 10/25/05 16:30

While not ideal, you could do a select on a db. MS SQL and MySQL both have
functions to generate unique id's and I imagine the other databases do as
well. While running a "SELECT uuid()" and hitting the database for each
one of these things is annoying, it is one possible pseudo-solution.

On Tue, 25 Oct 2005 06:47:26 -0400, "Denis Gerasimov"
<denis.gerasimov@team-force.org> wrote:

> Hello Jasper,
>
>> $unique_id = sha1( uniqid( mt_rand(), true ) );
>>
>> which should be very unique and suitable for most purposes.
>
> I really need millions of unique IDs - hashing is not suitable for this
> task
> (I think so) :-(. Any more ideas?
>
> Is there a PHP extension or an external library for generating GUIDs?
>
> Have a great day,
>
> Denis S Gerasimov
> Web Developer
> Team Force LLC
>
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