i've built an online calculator to be used for phone orders. it calculates prices of items, tax etc and prints a receipt. i need to be able to assign an order number to each receipt that increments with each new order. problem is that the person using the online calculator might log out or reboot, so the program has to know where the order number left off. it will reset to zero each new day. i'm a novice, so i'm not sure which area would handle this. could a cookie start this? or some kind of session function. i'm not advanced enough to do any database stuff yet, but i could probably figure out how to write to a flat file if that's the key. show me where to go and i'll find it. thanks.
my sample page is posted at http://www.lunchshuttle.com/submit_quantity.html
just enter a quantity of anything and you'll see how it works.
peter
