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Interesting thought. My idea on this is to use the approach used when
replicating a DB. It is similar to the namespace idea if not the same:
Say you have 3 databases, you could use mod 3 numbers for A=0, B=1 and C=2
So on A you would have 0, 3, 6, 9, ... on B 1, 4, 7, 10,
At 9:11 AM +1000 11/13/09, Angus Mann wrote:
Thanks Ashley. To clarify, the reason I don't want to use
auto-increment : different users with their own populated databases
may wish to merge some or all of their data. The unique identifier
needs to be carried along with the rest of the data, henc
On Fri, 2009-11-13 at 14:30 +1000, Angus Mann wrote:
> > Here's part of the confusion:
> >
> > If you were to express the number of microseconds since 1970 in a
> > decimal number, it would indeed take 16 digits.
> >
> > But uniqid() returns a /13 character string/, not a 13 digit number. The
> >
Here's part of the confusion:
If you were to express the number of microseconds since 1970 in a
decimal number, it would indeed take 16 digits.
But uniqid() returns a /13 character string/, not a 13 digit number. The
string is actually a hexadecimal number (and thus can express a greater
range o
Angus Mann wrote:
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From: Ashley Sheridan
To: Angus Mann
Cc: php-general@lists.php.net
Sent: Friday, November 13, 2009 8:31 AM
Subject: Re: [PHP] uniqid() and repetition of numbers generated
On Fri, 2009-11-13 at 08:22 +1000, Angus Mann wrote:
Hi all
Original Message -
From: Ashley Sheridan
To: Angus Mann
Cc: php-general@lists.php.net
Sent: Friday, November 13, 2009 8:31 AM
Subject: Re: [PHP] uniqid() and repetition of numbers generated
On Fri, 2009-11-13 at 08:22 +1000, Angus Mann wrote:
Hi all. I'm sure I can
On Fri, 2009-11-13 at 08:22 +1000, Angus Mann wrote:
> Hi all. I'm sure I can't be the first person to ask this question but a
> search of the net leaves me confused.
>
> I need a unique identifier in an SQL table and for complicated reasons I
> don't want to use auto-increment.
>
> So I thoug
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