[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] 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