Generate an ID (or integer) to identify a faction

increment, or a random and very long string to avoid collisions

you can have meta.json {nextcount:10}
and increment that slowly, if you want to increment without autoincrement

 

say that owner passed it's ownership
name+time could do tho...

 

hope no one tried an timing attack to generate two or more guilds on the same time to break the system
i dont think using only time is good enough

 

guild creation queue
seems overkill if you could have add something easier

 

If only microtime is uesd, it is very unreliable, especially if the server becomes very popular and you have multiple servers accepting faction creation simultaneously (where not even CPU performance assumption is reliable). In addition, microtime is not an integer, and if you multiply it with 1e+9, you have to truncate the top part of the timestamp, which makes it just a random integer (but less random than random_int())

Generally, a random 64-bit integer is reliable enough.

So, you will get struck by a lightning before you get 20 million factions created.

How do you increment it "slowly"? This sounds worse than using auto_increment.

Auto-increment is not really that bad. If you don't want to populate the whole row before getting the ID, you may consider using two separate tables (one table with auto_increment, another table with factionId as the foreign key to the auto_increment row).

Adding a current timestamp salt is more reliable if you don't want a duplicate ID when the owner recreates the faction after deletion.

 

tho using auto increment can be problematic if you want to support non sql save formats

 

Use random_bytes(8), added in PHP 7.
Or simply use random_int(), since PocketMine supposedly only runs in 64-bit environments.