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[nycphp-talk] generate random unique 8-digit number

Daniel Convissor danielc at analysisandsolutions.com
Fri Mar 13 11:47:41 EDT 2009


On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 07:23:56PM -0400, Tim Gales wrote:
> md5(uniqid(rand(), true))

Though MD5 collisions are possible, so I wouldn't count on that always 
resulting in a unique id.

--Dan

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