generate project #

Jules00

Hey 🙂

Im new to php, and have a simple question. Im creating an online training signup form, and need to know how to generate a random # that can be used to differentiate between projects. For example:

people who sign up for class 1 on date 1/1/04, recieve a random number that can group them with other people signed up for the same class on the same date.

I think this is the best way to group the classes, but i dont have that much experience. Anyway, I would appreciate it if someone could help me figure out how to create a project # based on two different inputs. Hope you can make some sense of the above post 🙂

Thank You!

LordShryku

Well, it sounds like you need a random number generator, plus the date...so....

//capture current month day year
$curDate = date("mdy");

//generate random string
//set length of string
$length= 6;
static srand;
if($srand != true) {
$srand = true;
srand((double(microtime()*1000000);
}
$chars = "1234567890";
for ($i=0;$i<$length;$i++) {
$result .= substr($chars, rand(0, strlen($chars)-1),1);
}

$RandomVar = "$date$result";

Hope this helps. I've been using this for quite some time now 🙂

Jules00

Im having a little trouble getting the above suggestion to work. I end up with this error message. Im still very new to php and am not quite sure what the problem is. Here is the error:

Parse error: parse error, unexpected T_STRING, expecting T_VARIABLE in c:\inetpub\wwwroot\form\random.php on line 16

Thanks!

LordShryku

What's line 16?

Jules00

static srand;

LordShryku

Lemme see your code....I don't have any problems with it....

LordShryku

Sorry, I just caught my mistake...

static srand should be static $srand

Jules00

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<html>
<head>
<title>Untitled Document</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
</head>

<body>
<?
//capture current month day year
$curDate = date("mdy");

$RandomVar = "$date$result";
?>
</body>
</html>

LordShryku

Wow, okay, I'm really off :rolleyes:

This will work for you....

$curDate = date("mdy");
$length = 6;
static $srand;
if($srand != true) {
$srand = true;
srand((double)microtime()*1000000);
}
$chars = "1234567890";
for ($i=0;$i<$length;$i++) {
$result .= substr($chars, rand(0, strlen($chars)-1),1);
}

$RandomVar = "$curDate$result";
echo $RandomVar;

Jules00

Sweet!

Thank you very much 🙂

LordShryku

No worries. Sorry for all the confusion 🙂