title: Short unique id in php
body: <p>I want to create a unique id but <code>uniqid()</code> is giving something like <code>'492607b0ee414'</code>. What i would like is something similar to what tinyurl gives: <code>'64k8ra'</code>. The shorter, the better. The only requirements are that it should not have an obvious order and that it should look prettier than a seemingly random sequence of numbers. Letters are preferred over numbers and ideally it would not be mixed case. As the number of entries will not be that many (up to 10000 or so) the risk of collision isn't a huge factor.</p>
  
  <p>Any suggestions appreciated.</p>