what's the equivalent of this function in javascript:
http://php.net/manual/en/function.uniqid.php
Basically I need to generate a random ID that looks like: a4245f54345
and starts with a alphabetic character (so I can use it as a CSS id)
Try this (Work in php).
$prefix = chr(rand(97,121));
$uniqid = $prefix.uniqid(); // $uniqid = uniqid($prefix);
Try this for JavaScript::
var n = Math.floor(Math.random() * 11);
var k = Math.floor(Math.random() * 1000000);
var m = String.fromCharCode(n) + k;