Thanks for the input. I just replaced time() with uniqid(""), and I
think that will work great.
Steven J. Walker
Walker Effects
www.walkereffects.com
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On Monday, February 18, 2002, at 01:38 PM, Lars Torben Wilson wrote:
> On Mon, 2002-02-18 at 13:14, Steven Walker wrote:
>> Is it safe to use time() to generate a unique id number?
>>
>> My thinking is that the call to the server will take enough time that
>> no
>> two users will get the same time stamp (although they may be very
>> close). Even though the likelyhood of two users entering at the same
>> time is very slim, I don't want to take the chance.
>>
>> What about microtime()?
>
> No, time functions suck for this. See uniqid() for this kind of thing:
>
> http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.uniqid.php
>
>
> Cheers,
>
> Torben
>
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