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Unread 21 Dec 2005, 17:59   #21
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Re: Basic PHP Help: Global Variables?

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prefix is optional but can be useful, for instance, if you generate identifiers simultaneously on several hosts that might happen to generate the identifier at the same microsecond
seems to add some stuff to the start of the returned string. i'm not quite sure how that's useful for making sure you get the same ID throughout a script?
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