On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 5:31 PM, Dave Maharaj :: WidePixels.com
<[email protected]> wrote:
> I am trying to generate a 6 character unique id using this in my model:
>
> function generateJobKey()
> {
> // creates a 6 digit key
> $key = substr(md5(uniqid(rand(), true)),0,6);
> //checkto make sure its not a duplcate
> $q = $this->find('first', array('conditions', array('Job.key' =>
> $key)));
> if(!$q){
> //if founds re-run the function
> $this->generateJobKey();
>
> } else {
> return $key;
> }
> }
It should be:
if ($q){
//if founds re-run the function
return $this->generateJobKey();
You want to make a new query if $q is not empty. Then, you need to
return properly or the 2nd call will produce nothing.
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