Re: [PHP-DB] Generating random numbers

2008-04-16 Thread Chris
TG wrote: Is the most important thing to be random or to be unique? If you need unique, you can use a timestamp including microseconds. Maybe using something like microtime(): http://us.php.net/manual/en/function.microtime.php The only other way you're probably going to guarentee that you do

Re: [PHP-DB] Generating random numbers

2008-04-16 Thread TG
Is the most important thing to be random or to be unique? If you need unique, you can use a timestamp including microseconds. Maybe using something like microtime(): http://us.php.net/manual/en/function.microtime.php The only other way you're probably going to guarentee that you don't repeat

[PHP-DB] Generating random numbers

2008-04-16 Thread A. Joseph
What is the best way to generating random numbers and you are sure that the script will never generate the generated ones? I`m using mysql database, but this out of SQL AUTO_INCREMENT stuff, I need a real random generator that will never generate what has been generated.

Re: [PHP-DB] Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_ELSE

2008-04-16 Thread Daniel Brown
On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 5:56 PM, Javier Viegas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks Daniel i ´ve removed the unexpected else secction. Now it works but > it tells me that there might be a syntax error on the query, this is good > news because now i know i´m having connection with the database but