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 also do it like tihs:

public static function generateCode($length = 6)
    {
        $az = 'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ';
        $azr = rand(0, 51);
        $azs = substr($az, $azr, 10);
        $stamp = hash('sha256', time());
        $mt = hash('sha256', mt_rand(5, 20));
        $alpha = hash('sha256', $azs);
        $hash = str_shuffle($stamp . $mt . $alpha);
        $code = ucfirst(substr($hash, $azr, $length));
        return $code;
    }