Names to ids

Simon Wistow simon at thegestalt.org
Wed Jan 25 15:47:59 GMT 2006


On Wed, Jan 25, 2006 at 03:28:46PM +0000, Andy Armstrong said:
> Well MD5 won't collide too often. But shouldn't you be storing the  
> images (or at least whatever metadata is associated with them) in a  
> database and using the primary key as the ID?

Sure - that'd be the smart way of doing it but it seems a bit like 
overkill just to get a unique id.

Plus I like making things hard for myself :)




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