| Re: creating key / hash [message #183949 is a reply to message #183942] |
Thu, 28 November 2013 18:37  |
Michael Vilain
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In article <l77086$vhq$1(at)ariadne(dot)rz(dot)tu-clausthal(dot)de>,
Philipp Kraus <philipp(dot)kraus(at)flashpixx(dot)de> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I need an idea for creating hash / key values. I use a WebDAV
> connection with sabredav to transform database table values in a webdav
> structure (vice versa).
> The database stores BibTeX data and I would like to transform this data
> in a BibTeX file. BibTeX uses a cite key most in this structure: <first
> 3 letters of each author><letter of the title><year>
> In my case this key should be generated automatically with PHP in the
> backend, but we have a hierachical structure, eg: organisation / group
> / authors / BibTeX publication
>
> My BibTeX key should store also a reference of the organisation and
> group, the organisation can be shorten with 3 letters (we have got a
> shortcut), but I need also a unique key, so
> my question is, did you have a good idea to create a "human readable
> short and unique hash with the hierachical organisation strucutre" in
> PHP ? At the moment I'm thinking about
> suffix trees or anything else.
>
> Thanks a lot for some ideas
>
> Phil
Half the time of design is figuring this sort of thing out.
What makes sense to you?
What would make sense to someone who's not familiar with your project?
(e.g. ask some non-involved person like your gf/bf)
There's nothing technical about this process, just figuring out what
makes sense.
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