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tangoforce · 10-04-2012, 09:53 PM

Seeing as you've not posted the sql error message...

Alternative route is to put the user id AND a key in the link. That way the key from uniqid() doesn't have to be unique as long as it is correct. Then you don't need to worry about it being a unique column.

10-04-2012, 09:53 PM	PM User \| #22
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