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From: tony@svanstrom.com (Tony L. Svanstrom)
Subject: Re: Generating unique ID's for shopping carts
Reply-To: tony@svanstrom.com (Tony L. Svanstrom)
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R.Joseph <streaking_pyro@my-deja.com> wrote:
: I have seen a plethora of shopping cart scripts that all produce unique ID
: numbers for each 'shopper' (ie: IP or current user) that comes along.
: These are usually in hexadecimal and seem to randomly generated, and are
: usually fairly long (some I have seen were 64 digits or more).
:
: Is there a place where I could find good algorithims, or could someone
: show me a good one, that do this type of thing? Or maybe even point me in
: the right direction so that I can figure it out for myself? Thanks!
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/Tony
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