>> users uploading two identically named files at the same time (not all >> /that/ unlikely), and you are using a database table to track > >Really? You don't think it's that uncommon? Please give an example as I >can't think of any. Not like that's saying much. :)
I'd say that any time you have an application written for some specific industry or audience, there's a good chance people will be uploading assets with similar names -- we did one for an automotive company's design department, and there were a lot of instances of people posting many images named "headlights.jpg", for example. The application was visual, the frontend was flash, and they were more interested in the image than the filename. I used microtime() to differentiate them, but in retrospect it should have been a no-brainer to use the database primary id to help differentiate these, since the DB already did all the heavy lifting involved in ensuring uniqueness. --------------------------------------------------------------------- michal migurski- contact info and pgp key: sf/ca http://mike.teczno.com/contact.html -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
