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PHP Time Based UUID Function (GUID)

by Drew on July 28, 2009

In my desire to find the “right” UUID function to use in my application, I grew to like the MySQL UUID() results produced because they are partially time based. But I didn’t like that I have to make a database call every time I want a new UUID.  I didn’t find any similar functionality in PHP or from user based PHP functions, so here’s my efforts.

It clocks in at 100,000 results in about 1.36 seconds on my 2.8Ghz Intel iMac.

We produce results looking like this:

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  1. Sapa #

    Dear Drew,

    I have a question regarding your excelent PayPal php class. I need to create a recurring payment for a user.Would be it possible to have an example of how to do this?

    Thanks

    November 24, 2009

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