[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]
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jas: - Original Message - From: jas [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, January 21, 2002 10:50 PM 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 So I supose the problem is getting a random alpha numeric identifier , am i right? If so, what are the specifications of that identifier? Right now, the use of crypt/dcrypt function comes to my mind, but then you would need to use the mecrypt library. If you don't need something that sofisticated try generating a random number and then use char() and ord() to retreive the info. hope this will help you, andrés -- 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]
RE: [PHP-DB] tracking users...
Hi I use $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]
