Short unique id in php

Question

I want to create a unique id but uniqid() is giving something like \'492607b0ee414\'. What i would like is something similar to what tinyurl gives:

Answer 1

You can achieve that with less code:

function gen_uid($l=10){
    return substr(str_shuffle("0123456789abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz"), 0, $l);
}

Result (examples):

• cjnp56brdy
• 9d5uv84zfa
• ih162lryez
• ri4ocf6tkj
• xj04s83egi