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php Unique filename when uploading


I've a submit discussion form with image upload in my website. Now, I want to upload a unique file name when the user submits their image so that I can show the result of all images and can avoid duplicate file names.

How can I do this with php? If you need my form process code then I'll upload it.


Solution

  • You can use the uniqid() function to generate a unique ID

    /**
     * Generate a unique ID
     * @link http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.uniqid.php
     * @param prefix string[optional] <p>
     * Can be useful, for instance, if you generate identifiers
     * simultaneously on several hosts that might happen to generate the
     * identifier at the same microsecond.
     * </p>
     * <p>
     * With an empty prefix, the returned string will
     * be 13 characters long. If more_entropy is
     * true, it will be 23 characters.
     * </p>
     * @param more_entropy bool[optional] <p>
     * If set to true, uniqid will add additional
     * entropy (using the combined linear congruential generator) at the end
     * of the return value, which should make the results more unique.
     * </p>
     * @return string the unique identifier, as a string.
     */
    function uniqid ($prefix = null, $more_entropy = null) {}