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fris	02-03-2012 09:56 AM

best way to generate a random string?

looking to create a string like on pastebin for the entries.

whats the best way to go about this?

current way im doing is using uniqid with some other jazz

Code:

function short_name( $post_name ) {

                global $wpdb, $post;

                if ( !is_object( $post ) )

                        return $post_name;

                $num    = (int) $post->ID;

                $pasteid = md5(uniqid($num, true));

                $slug = dechex(crc32($pasteid));

                return $slug;

 }

k0nr4d

02-03-2012 10:11 AM

nothign wrong with md5(uniqid());
You can maybe use microtime too

PowerCum

02-03-2012 10:38 AM

Compile your apache with mod unique_id and let the web server care about it for you.
On high traffic servers the performance impact is almost nothing. Your solution is considerably slower than apache inique_id and will consume quite more CPU.
Other than that, it's an ok solution.

fris	02-03-2012 10:42 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by PowerCum (Post 18733033)

ya im only running this at the time of creating a post. so other than that its not used anywhere else.

I thik i have that module installed for expiring links.

grumpy

02-03-2012 11:34 AM

or you can just take a sessionid

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