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So, I started designing this site in geeklog and I have fallen in love with the system. I'm writing a repeating events engine that keeps track of the many events it creates so they can all be deleted at once (and yes i do plan to release the code when I’m done). But the problem is when I’m creating particularly large sets of events, I get events with the same eid . is there any easy way of fixing this without having to rewrite the sid code and completely reset the site? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

The standard IDs are a timestamp plus up to 3 random characters. You should really only run into duplicates if you create several IDs per second.

Geeklog itself doesn't rely on the event id being formatted as it is, so you are free to create your own IDs. As long as they don't exceed 20 characters and there's no 3rd party add-on that relies on the old format, you should be fine.

bye, Dirk

Thanks. The code does create the events individually, so in large repeating event jobs this poses a problem, I will probably keep the timestamp but use an incremental value following it. However if I continue to use event.php to create the events, this becomes a bit more in-depth of a hack.

Did you ever have any luck getting this code together?