[turba] Question about database entries

[Jan Schneider]

Zitat von Michael Richey <mike at strangehouse.com>:

> First of all, I'd like to congratulate the creators of horde and turba.
> I had previously implemented Squirrelmail, which is a fairly nice IMAP
> client...but then I found horde, imp and turba and I'm totally blown
> away.  Excellent job!

Thanks!

> Ok, here's my question.  I'm using MySQL database back end for
> everything.  Turba assigns an ID for each address book object, and I'm
> wondering how these ID's are generated.

They are just arbitrary unique IDs.

> I've got several thousand address book entries for all of my users and
> am working on a method to import all of them at once.  I'm concerned
> about that ID though.  Is it special?  Will I let out the blue smoke if
> I just generate unique 32 character ID's based on timestamp?

No, that's perfect.

Jan.

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