function uuid() { $charid = md5(uniqid(mt_rand(), true)); $hyphen = chr(45);// "-" $uuid = substr($charid, 0, 8).$hyphen .substr($charid, 8, 4).$hyphen .substr($charid,12, 4).$hyphen .substr($charid,16, 4).$hyphen .substr($charid,20,12); return $uuid; }