generate ID

Hey,

I've change a existing tool a little bit.
There is a section that creates/saves an ID to db. Before this was coded in MD5(?). I don't want this.
But can't figured it out.

Can i change following piece so he creates a unique 'simple' number?

function generate_id()
{
global $title, $description;
$continue = true;
//$auction_id = uniqid("");

$auction_id = uniqid(rand());
//$auction_id = eregi_replace("[a-f]","",$auction_id);


return $auction_id;
}

Thanks a lot,
Brononi

Can't tell you much if you don't also provide the uniquid function. Why not just use something like the following:



It's not guaranteed to give you a unique id, but it's at least as likely to as what you've already got, and it returns a big integer that's not hashed.