On 06.05.2020 14:44, Nikita Popov wrote: > A possible candidate for this would be ULID (https://github.com/ulid/spec), > which is basically timestamp + random + base32 encoding. The timestamp part > makes ULIDs approximately lexicographically orderable, the random part > makes sure things are unique when generated in parallel and the base32 > encoding avoids people having to deal with raw binary data.
Something like that. Here's some points imho are important for the implementation: 1. The random part does not exhaust system entrophy (based on mt_rand()?). 2. it's fast. 3. it's simple, i.e. is a simple function that returns base32 string. The only argument might be the output string length. My 2 cents. -- Aleksander Machniak Kolab Groupware Developer [https://kolab.org] Roundcube Webmail Developer [https://roundcube.net] ---------------------------------------------------- PGP: 19359DC1 # Blog: https://kolabian.wordpress.com -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
