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$sessionID = md5(uniqid(rand())); setcookie (sessionID , $sessionID ,0 , "" , "" ,0); which works hth Peter > -----Original Message----- > From: jas [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: 22 January 2002 06:51 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [PHP-DB] tracking users... > > > I am fairly new to PHP and have setup a site that connects to a > MySQL db to > store different information from our users, however what I would like to > setup is something that I could place on a few pages to track users for > demographic purposes. What I need to do is as a page is visited I need to > generate a random alpha numeric identifier to be used as a > session variable > for a cookie and also have that cookie's information be placed > into a MySQL > database for later retrieval. If anyone has a good resource tutorial on > this type of function I would greatly appriciate it. Oh and yes > I have done > quite a bit of research on php.net on both the session() and the > setcookie() > functions. =) Thanks again. Jas > > > > > -- > PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]