Hi, Just to add...
Larry E. Ullman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I am doing a receipt system whereby it can auto generate a > > unique receipt > > number for each receipt. It will be an increment of number > > eg.000001, 000002, > > 000003, and so on.....Wonder how should I go about doing this > > using PHP? Do need > > some help here..technologies used are:PHP and MySQL... > > Since you're using MySQL, create a table for your receipts with a > receipt_number which is an auto_incremented, primary key, unsigned, > not null, integer. When you add records to this, set this column's > value to NULL or 0 and it will automatically use the next sequential > number. ...and maybe "zerofill" will be useful here as well... > See the MySQL manual for more. (To the OP -> ) This is a good habit to acquire... ;) - E - __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! BB is Broadband by Yahoo! http://bb.yahoo.co.jp/ -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
