why not use slugs then?

http://www.example.com/projects/username/my-cool-project/

sounds a lot nice than

http://www.example.com/projects/0sdf0s463sdg0/

 - bram

On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 11:21 AM, Julien <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>  One reason is because I believe string allows to store bigger amounts
>  of data, since IDs wouldn't be counted in base 10. E.g. YouTube videos
>  which are identified by random generated strings.
>  Another reason is because I want to keep things a bit more transparent
>  to the users. Instead of having a url like www.example.com/projects/3/,
>  I'd have something like  www.example.com/projects/iuyf876ertg/
>  I don't really want the user to know that his project is number 3...
>
>
>
>  On Mar 31, 8:11 pm, Kenneth Gonsalves <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>  > On 31-Mar-08, at 2:30 PM, Julien wrote:
>  >
>  > > I just thought I'd try to make it clearer what I'm after. Instead of
>  > > having numbers as ID for my objects, I'd like to have random strings
>  > > (e.g. "sadfwetbtyvt32452" or "fd70982876adhfd"...). Those strings have
>  > > to be unique across the table.
>  > > Is that easily achievable? Am I on the right track with the code
>  > > above?
>  >
>  > why? what do you hope to achieve by doing this?
>  >
>  > --
>  >
>  > regards
>  > kghttp://lawgon.livejournal.comhttp://nrcfosshelpline.in/code/
>
>
> >
>



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