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machinari

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So there I was, renaming files in a directory at lightning fast speed and up comes this error that I have a duplicate file name. I thought, "not possible cuz I'm using COM_makesid to generate the filenames." Lo and behold, I was wrong. I had COM_makesid running about 30 times per second and the random number that follows the seconds had already come up once. Sure, it's not inconceivable, but I'm still shocked.
Guess I should slow down the script. ...but that just seems pointless unless I ensure that the loop runs only once per second--I don't want to do that. hmmm. I guess I could lower the odds of getting a duplicate with a bigger random number. Any thoughts?
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Blaine

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You might want to look at microtime() or mt_rand(). One other idea is to use the basic rand() and add that to the COM_makesid value.

For Random files, I use this routine to create a random 10 character filename.
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function ppRandomFilename() {

    $length=10;
    srand((double)microtime()*1000000);
    $possible_charactors = "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz1234567890ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ";
    $string = "";
    while(strlen($string)<$length) {
        $string .= substr($possible_charactors, rand()%(strlen($possible_charactors)),1);
    }
    $string .= date('mdHms');   // Now add the numerical MonthDayHourSecond just to ensure no possible duplicate
    return($string);

}
 

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machinari

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Thanks Blaine. that looks good.
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machinari

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so, I went a different way. Still using COM_makesid, I just put the new name into an array and check the array after the next call to COM_makesid. Like so:
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                        // check here for new filename to ensure no duplicates.
                        do {
                            $file_id = COM_makesid();
                            $filename = $file_id . '.' . $ext;
                        } while (!empty($db_files) && in_array($filename, $db_files));
                       
                        //rename file
                        $newname = $dir . $filename;
                        $oldname = $dir . $file;
                        rename($oldname, $newname);
                       
                        //add new filename to db_array here for checking on next loop
                        $db_files[] = $filename;
 
of course that all makes more sense if you see it in a loop. :wink:
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