base_convert crashing server?
<p>I have a webapp where I use <code>base_convert($database_id, 36)</code> to convert the id to base 36 for the URL. My site stayed up and saw some good traffic early on and was extremely responsive and stable. Now, after a few months I have something like 130k records and my server is crashing from much less traffic than it saw early on at it's release.</p>

<p>I saw in the php manual that base_convert may lose accuracy with large numbers, so I'm wondering if this could possibly be bugging out my server and crashing it? Any suggestions on how to do that base conversion without using base_convert to test this out.</p>

<p>Many thanks for any help.</p>
