Why does it have to be letters and numbers? You're just making more
work. You can use an auto_increment field and not worry about it
(assuming MySQL).
You can also use uniqid() and md5() to make a unique string, but it'll
be 32 characters long. Maybe crypt() is 16 characters...dunno, but you
the update ...
-Original Message-
From: John Holmes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, 30 May 2002 11:22 AM
To: 'Peter'; 'Php'
Subject: RE: [PHP] generating next number... from db extraction
Why does it have to be letters and numbers? You're just making more
work. You can use
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-Original Message-
From: Peter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, May 29, 2002 9:38 PM
To: Php
Subject: RE: [PHP] generating next number... from db extraction
unfortunately they want letters in it ... I know it would be easier
to
hav
auto_incroment.. and wish I could just leave
Thanks for your help John that works really well :)
Cheers
Peter
-Original Message-
From: John Holmes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, 30 May 2002 12:08 PM
To: 'Peter'; 'Php'
Subject: RE: [PHP] generating next number... from db extraction
Okay...here's the what they don't
Hi
You could use the auto increment feature of mysql and store the prefix and
suffix as seperate fields in the database like
idnum|prefix|suffix|data
1234:abc|A
Then just add them together to form the complete order number.
Tom
At 10:27 AM 30/05/2002 +1000, Peter wrote:
hi,
I'm
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