Generating serial or unique ordernumber

php auto-increment serial-number
Smith picture Smith · Jun 21, 2010 · Viewed 7.5k times · Source

How do generate unique serial or order number in php without checking against db?

Answer

user180100 picture user180100 · Jun 21, 2010

see uniqid or uuid_create in uuid pecl or com_create_guid()

Related questions

PHP mySQL - Insert new record into table with auto-increment on primary key

Wondering if there is a shorthand version to insert a new record into a table that has the primary key enabled? (i.e. not having to include the key column in the query) Lets say the key column is called …

Read More
PHP function to increment variable by 1 each time

I have started writing a PHP script for a game about creatures, there are 4 yes/no questions and what I am trying to do is write a function that will display 2 buttons that say yes and no and give then …

Read More
PHP MYSQL - Insert into without using column names but with autoincrement field

I need to insert a long row with 32 fields into a MySQL table. I'd like to do something like this: $sql="insert into tblname values (... 32 fields ...)"; Obviously it works fine if the fields are in the same order as the …

Read More