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[dougal85]

I've been using quite a bit of ASP.NET 2.0 (with c#) with SQL Server 2005 - or trying to learn it.

I've got to say i love the commans in SQLServer NEWID() - is there a command like this in PHP - its really usefully

[MarkR]

PHP has a function uniqid(), but that does not generate a unique ID in the same format as MSSQL NEWID(). I don't know of one which does, however I can imagine that someone has written one - combining uniqid() and microtime() etc in some way to generate something which is likely to be unique (which is all that MSSQL's one guarantees anyway).

Mark