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helicoder / guid.php
Created January 26, 2017 09:31
PHP Function to return a Global Unique Identifier (GUID or UUID)
// Returns a Global Unique Identifier
function getGUID()
{
if (function_exists('com_create_guid')){
return com_create_guid();
}else{
mt_srand((double)microtime()*10000);//optional for php 4.2.0 and up.
$charid = strtoupper(md5(uniqid(rand(), true)));
$hyphen = chr(45);// "-"
$uuid = substr($charid, 0, 8).$hyphen