Witango-Talk: generating unique codes

2010-10-14 Thread Roland Dumas
looking for method to create unique and non-obvious n-digit codes to be used as discount codes. Should be short enough to use as consumer codes (8 digit?), and probably be something simply to enter, such as an all caps, and not have an easily discoverable pattern. I want to generate unique

Re: Witango-Talk: generating unique codes

2010-10-14 Thread Steve Smith
I gave this some thought and decided to share this with you. You may have already considered this and found reasons why this wouldn't work. Also, a disclaimer: I haven't been doing a lot of Witango development lately so I might get some of the tags wrong. Create a table that would have fields

RE: Witango-Talk: generating unique codes

2010-10-14 Thread Robert Shubert
or cryptography. Robert -Original Message- From: Roland Dumas [mailto:radu...@mac.com] Sent: Thursday, October 14, 2010 11:42 AM To: Witango-Talk@witango.com Subject: Witango-Talk: generating unique codes looking for method to create unique and non-obvious n-digit codes to be used as discount

Re: Witango-Talk: generating unique codes

2010-10-14 Thread Roland Dumas
Steve, Thanks. What I'm trying to avoid is generating a code and then having to go look through all prior codes to make sure it's unique.Not sure if that would end up being a processing burden, but I don't want to risk it. RAD On Oct 14, 2010, at 10:17 AM, Steve Smith wrote: I gave this some

Re: Witango-Talk: generating unique codes

2010-10-14 Thread Roland Dumas
Message- From: Roland Dumas [mailto:radu...@mac.com] Sent: Thursday, October 14, 2010 11:42 AM To: Witango-Talk@witango.com Subject: Witango-Talk: generating unique codes looking for method to create unique and non-obvious n-digit codes to be used as discount codes. Should be short

Re: Witango-Talk: generating unique codes

2010-10-14 Thread Ben Johansen
...@mac.com] Sent: Thursday, October 14, 2010 11:42 AM To: Witango-Talk@witango.com Subject: Witango-Talk: generating unique codes looking for method to create unique and non-obvious n-digit codes to be used as discount codes. Should be short enough to use as consumer codes (8 digit

Re: Witango-Talk: generating unique codes

2010-10-14 Thread Roland Dumas
Dumas [mailto:radu...@mac.com] Sent: Thursday, October 14, 2010 11:42 AM To: Witango-Talk@witango.com Subject: Witango-Talk: generating unique codes looking for method to create unique and non-obvious n-digit codes to be used as discount codes. Should be short enough to use as consumer codes

RE: Witango-Talk: generating unique codes

2010-10-14 Thread Robert Shubert
I'm sorry, there's not. @SLEEP was added in 5.5 -Original Message- From: Roland Dumas [mailto:radu...@mac.com] Sent: Thursday, October 14, 2010 2:39 PM To: Witango-Talk@witango.com Subject: Re: Witango-Talk: generating unique codes is there a tag that will do a sleep or wait in witango

Re: Witango-Talk: generating unique codes

2010-10-14 Thread Roland Dumas
[mailto:radu...@mac.com] Sent: Thursday, October 14, 2010 11:42 AM To: Witango-Talk@witango.com Subject: Witango-Talk: generating unique codes looking for method to create unique and non-obvious n-digit codes to be used as discount codes. Should be short enough to use as consumer codes (8 digit

RE: Witango-Talk: generating unique codes

2010-10-14 Thread Robert Shubert
: Roland Dumas [mailto:radu...@mac.com] Sent: Thursday, October 14, 2010 3:18 PM To: Witango-Talk@witango.com Subject: Re: Witango-Talk: generating unique codes I need to stare at this code a bit more. I made it witango 5 compatible (while object and instead of @sleep, I just threw away output based

Re: Witango-Talk: generating unique codes

2010-10-14 Thread Robert Garcia
: Roland Dumas [mailto:radu...@mac.com] Sent: Thursday, October 14, 2010 11:42 AM To: Witango-Talk@witango.com Subject: Witango-Talk: generating unique codes looking for method to create unique and non-obvious n-digit codes to be used as discount codes. Should be short enough to use

RE: Witango-Talk: generating unique codes

2010-10-14 Thread Robert Shubert
= Final Code: XKYGUIOF -Original Message- From: Roland Dumas [mailto:radu...@mac.com] Sent: Thursday, October 14, 2010 3:18 PM To: Witango-Talk@witango.com Subject: Re: Witango-Talk: generating unique codes I need to stare at this code a bit more. I made it witango 5 compatible (while object

RE: Witango-Talk: generating unique codes

2010-10-14 Thread Robert Shubert
I’ve added @GUID to the list. Robert From: Robert Garcia [mailto:wita...@bighead.net] Sent: Thursday, October 14, 2010 3:39 PM To: Witango-Talk@witango.com Subject: Re: Witango-Talk: generating unique codes This is a weakness in witango, but easily shored. Witango lacks the ability

Re: Witango-Talk: generating unique codes

2010-10-14 Thread Bill Downall
-Original Message- From: Roland Dumas [mailto:radu...@mac.com] Sent: Thursday, October 14, 2010 11:42 AM To: Witango-Talk@witango.com Subject: Witango-Talk: generating unique codes looking for method to create unique and non-obvious n-digit codes to be used as discount codes. Should

Re: Witango-Talk: generating unique codes

2010-10-14 Thread Robert Garcia
-Talk: generating unique codes looking for method to create unique and non-obvious n-digit codes to be used as discount codes. Should be short enough to use as consumer codes (8 digit?), and probably be something simply to enter, such as an all caps, and not have an easily discoverable

Re: Witango-Talk: generating unique codes

2010-10-14 Thread Robert Garcia
14, 2010, at 12:45 PM, Robert Shubert wrote: I’ve added @GUID to the list. Robert From: Robert Garcia [mailto:wita...@bighead.net] Sent: Thursday, October 14, 2010 3:39 PM To: Witango-Talk@witango.com Subject: Re: Witango-Talk: generating unique codes This is a weakness in witango