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<p class="verinfo">(PHP 5)</p><p class="refpurpose"><span class="refname">com_create_guid</span> — <span class="dc-title">Generate a globally unique identifier (GUID)</span></p>
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<span class="type">string</span> <span class="methodname"><strong>com_create_guid</strong></span>
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Generates a Globally Unique Identifier (GUID).
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A GUID is generated in the same way as DCE UUID's, except that the
Microsoft convention is to enclose a GUID in curly braces.
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Returns the GUID as a string.
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<li class="member"> <span class="function"><strong>uuid_create()</strong></span> in the PECL uuid extension</li>
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