[FiRe]

Is there a way to generate a unique number or hash from an email? I use IMAP and PHP to fetch the emails, and for the email ID I use:

for ($id = 1; $id <= $total; $id++) {

But if I store the id in a database and they delete that email, then a new email will have $id 1 but will not be the same email!

Any ideas??

[Keith]

I'm assuming you're grabbing this from another site and don't have access to the database.

Try encrypting the subject, date, and author - or whatever info you have access to and want to use - into one variable.

PHP Code:

$unique_id = md5($subject) . md5($date) . md5($author); 

or

PHP Code:

$unique_id = md5($subject . intval(ereg_replace("[^0-9]", "", $date))); 

[FiRe]

good idea...