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Programming PHP
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Programming PHP

by Rasmus Lerdorf, Kevin Tatroe
March 2002
Intermediate to advanced
528 pages
21h 29m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Name

uniqid

Synopsis

string uniqid(string prefix[, bool more_entropy])

Returns a unique identifier, prefixed with prefix, based on the current time in microseconds. If more_entropy is specified and is true, additional random characters are added to the end of the string. The resulting string is either 13 characters (if more_entropy is unspecified or false) or 23 characters (if more_entropy is true) long.

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