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
r be generated by
PHP or the database? Or can it be either?
-TG
- Original Message -
From: "A. Joseph" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Evert Lammerts" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: "php-db@lists.php.net"
Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2008 00:00:21 +0100
Subject: [PHP-
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.
