[thelist] mysql primary key question..
Erick Papadakis
erick_papadakis at yahoo.com
Mon Jul 8 13:11:01 CDT 2002
thanx shanx - that works for me perfectly!!
exactly the function i was looking for!
you rock my man!
erick
--- Shashank Tripathi <sub at shanx.com> wrote:
> Erick, good ideas...but I guess your best bet is to have the numeric
> field as ID to be auto-sequenced by MySQL, and then generate a base36
> number based on it (which you can use as a unique key etc). Following
> is
> a code snippet for base36 function in PHP, I am adding it as a tip for
> the benefit of EVOLT posterity. Hope this solves your problems..
>
> Cheers,
> -Shanx.
>
=====
thanks/erick
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