[RESOLVED] Creating Vouchers

[jonahpup]

Hi there,

I am having some trouble here.. .I am fairly new to php.

I am wanting to create a page on my site, that will generate a random number and assign it to the value $voucherID, then check that the number doesnt already exist in my database.

If the number exists already, I need to generate a new number...
If the number doesnt exist, then I want to have a user fill in a form that says Name, Date issued etc.. and store that data along with the voucherID into my database.

I have tried to do this several different ways, but I either end up with only the voucherID being stored in the database, and no other details, or I end up with several records for the same person and different voucher numebrs.

Is anyone able to give me some idea of how I should be doing this to make it work????

[TitanKing]

This function will give you a unique number without ever worrying that it is unique... it works with the timestamp making sure one unique number never gets repeated again, with extra peace of mind I added a random number as well.

   

function unique_id()
    {
        $uniq = uniqid(rand());
        return $uniq;
    }

Hope this works out for you...

[jonahpup]

Thanks TitanKing...

This has made life a LOT easier...

[bradgrafelman]

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