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i’m building an application that needs a random unique id for each user not a sequence
mysql database
ID Username
for my unique random ID, what is the best way to do that?
PHP provides a
uniqidfunction, which might do the trick, I suppose.Note it’s returning a string, though, and not an integer.
Another idea would be to generate / use some GUID — there are some proposals about that in the user notes of the manual page of
uniqid.