[Gllug] Unique id fields

Daniel Andersson daniel at septum.org
Sat Oct 11 18:36:00 UTC 2003


> On Sat, 2003-10-11 at 18:29, Daniel Andersson wrote:
> > first question, what do you need a unique id for?
>
> User identification during/spanning sessions.  Shopping baskets mostly.

can i then recommend creating a unique id and set a cookie?

to create unique ids i'm using the md5 of the clients ip, user agent,
microtime and a few other random things..

works very well :)

/ d


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