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In the construction of our booking system client can view their bookings online. At the moment the URL of their page is created as a sequential number. So /booking1, /booking2, /booking3 etc...

I'd rather have unique name a bit like the JSFiddle way of doing it. A series of letters and numbers.

Is that possible?

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Walrus
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  • You've asked the exact same question already: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5422065/php-random-url-names-short-url. – Alix Axel Mar 31 '11 at 15:21
  • Not exactly. And I also did not get a simple answer that I could work with. Thanks for the vote – Walrus Mar 31 '11 at 16:23
  • Why have you marked it as accepted then? – Alix Axel Mar 31 '11 at 16:25
  • Because at the time it answered the initial question but on further development their had to be an easier way of doing it. Thanks for the vote – Walrus Apr 01 '11 at 10:15

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Would uniqid be good enough for what you need?

http://php.net/manual/en/function.uniqid.php

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uniqid function seems to be what you are looking for.

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you can use uniqid("bookingr", false);

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