Question

I’ve tried writing the function myself, though it doesn’t work as expected and now I see the logic flaw.

$string             = 'aaaaaa';

function hp_update_uid($string)
{
    $position           = strpos($string, '9');



    if($position === 0)
    {
        return FALSE;
    }
    elseif($position === FALSE)
    {
        $position   = -1;
    }
    else
    {
        $position   = -(7-$position);
    }

    #var_dump($position);
    #exit;

    $character_ord      = ord(substr($string, $position, 1));

    if($character_ord == 122)
    {
        $character_ord  = 65;
    }
    elseif($character_ord == 90)
    {
        $character_ord = 48;
    }
    else
    {
        ++$character_ord;
    }

    $string             = substr_replace($string, chr($character_ord), $position, 1);

    return $string;
}

for($i = 0; $i < 1000; $i++)
{
    $string = hp_update_uid($string);
    echo $string . '<br />';
}

This will produce the following output: https://gist.github.com/937b148a126924b9429d

How do I really generate 6 characters long unique ID using only a-z A-Z 0-9 and using logical increase?

Answer 1

How do I really generate 6 characters long unique ID using only a-z A-Z 0-9 and using logical increase?

If they need to increase by steps of 1, start at 0, then increase by 1 and convert the resulting number in base62 (26 from [A-Z] + 26 from [a-z] + 10 from [0-9]).

Stop when the length no longer fits (62^6 - 1 if I am not mistaking).