Is there a way i could make the unique id (primary key) in Mysql generate with numbers and letters to keep the id as short as possible? If I cant do this in Mysql how could i get PHP to generate this? Thanks 🙂
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Is there a way i could make the unique id (primary key) in Mysql generate with numbers and letters to keep the id as short as possible? If I cant do this in Mysql how could i get PHP to generate this? Thanks 🙂
Encoding as Base 36 is a good choice for this as it utilises 0-9 A-Z and so is compact.
You can leave mysql using integers and translate between the two in PHP, or derive a base 36 value from an incrementing id + trigger.