Add [e-mail] in both email and verify email input forms ?

[insane87]

How to add counter in the input form ?
I meand this is the code

<form>
<td class="form">E-mail address: <span class="mandatory"></span></td>
<td class="form"><input type="text" name="email" id="app16106135765_email" value="[e-mail]" readonly="" fbcontext="1f5464592872" /></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="form">Confirm your E-mail address: <span class="mandatory"></span></td>
<td class="form"><input type="text" name="email_confirm" id="app16106135765_email_confirm" value="[e-mail]" autocomplete="off" readonly="" fbcontext="1f5464592872" /></td>

		</tr>

Now I want to add counter that starts from 0 to 100 million .. example [e-mail] then [e-mail] .. Each time it is accessed it adds 1 ..
And I want to show in both the boxes email and email_confirm the [e-mail] how ?
Thanks

[Krik]

I assume each user that submits the form will get an incrementing numbered email.

And if that is the case each time someone enters the site any script that would do this will start back at the default value.

The only way I can think of is for the previous or next value to be stored in a database. And then retrieved when the form page is open and used to generate the emails numeric value. Even this is not full proof in that if 2 people open the script at nearly the same time they will get the same number. This could be avoided by having a new number submited when the form is opened. But should they exit without submiting you would have gaps in the incrementation. To avoid that you would need two pieces of data, the numbers that were generated when a form was opened and the numbers that were submited. And compare the two to check for gaps in the incremention.

The only way to do it in script, is if it is only one person using the form and they never close the browser window and the script submits to itself.

[insane87]

Yes,each time the page is loaded it connects to database of incremented numbers ..
It doesnt matter a lot if both opened at same time and they got same [e-mail] 🙂
How can it be done ?
I donno a lot in php ?
How to create database ? and what to change in the forms above ?
Thanks

[Krik]

For creating a database and tables. I would recomend first checking into the tools that you web host is providing. Most usually include a good MySQL database managment utility. That will allow you to creat a database as well add and edit data.

As for retreiving, adding, and editiing the data using php there is tons of real quick one or 2 page tutorials all over the internat on doing that. I recomend a bit of research.

On incremanting the number, that is fairly simple. Once you have the number from the database do a bit of math

$next_number = $db_last_number++;

the ++ is the same as +1. Then you just take that value to the form and when the form submits run an update query on the database to change the number to the new value.