> I've got a project where I'm taking form information from the user and > writing records to several tables in a MySQL database. > > The problem I'm having is I need to write a unique number for the ID > column of the records. Auto increment won't work because I could have > conflicts due to replication of the database servers. Anyone have any > techique they use for creating unique ID field entries in a db table? > > I was thinking maybe using a random 3 digit number and a unix > timestamp? >
Maybe this will work for you? http://us2.php.net/manual/en/function.uniqid.php JM -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
