unique random id

Posted by Piyush on Stack Overflow See other posts from Stack Overflow or by Piyush
Published on 2010-05-17T16:50:21Z Indexed on 2010/05/17 17:01 UTC
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I am generating unique id for my small application but I am facing some variable scope problem. my code-

function create_id()
{  
global $myusername;  
$part1 = substr($myusername, 0, -4);  
$part2 = rand (99,99999);  
$part3 = date("s");  
return $part1.$part2.$part3;  
}

$id;  
$count=0;

while($count == 1)  
{  
$id;  
$id=create_id();  
$sqlcheck = "Select * FROM ruser WHERE userId='$id';";  
$count =mysql_query($sqlcheck,$link)or die(mysql_error());  
}  


echo $id;  

I dont know which variable I have to declare as global

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