Converting a string to a number by using INT (no hash method)

[Ferrous Cranus]

Τη Τρίτη, 22 Ιανουαρίου 2013 7:24:26 μ.μ. UTC+2, ο χρήστης Leonard, Arah έγραψε:
> > No need, to turn the number back to a path anymore, just the path to a number, to identify the specific .html page
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> > Can this be done?
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> Guaranteed to be unique?  Not even remotely possible.  Even with a lookup table approach (which defeats your purpose of not storing the path) with 4 digits you're looking at a maximum 10000 unique file paths before your system duplicates numbers.  And that's the best-case scenario.  Anything else would be worse.
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> Not guaranteed to be unique?  Easy.  Just take then previously given example of pin = int( htmlpage.encode("hex"), 16 ) and mod it to your limit, to make:
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> pin = int( htmlpage.encode("hex"), 16 ) % 10000
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> It'll give you your number, but there are no guarantees of uniqueness.  You're looking at more blind random luck using that.

Finally!!!!!! THANK YOU VERY MUCH!!! THIS IS WHAT I WAS LOOKING FOR!!!

NOW, if you please explain it to me from the innermost parenthesis please, because i do want to understand it!!!

And since i'am sure it works, and i just used it on http://superhost.gr
please view my domain and help me understand why its producing errors for me.
Your 1-line code surely works but somethings not letting my webpage load normally.

Please take a look....