Well, part of the issue is that I want to be able to use this as part
of the link:
/news.php?article=2006-03-05a
/news.php?article=2006-03-05b
which i will eventually do a htacess rewrite to make it look like
/news/2006-03-05a.php
/news/2006-03-05a.php
I don't think I can do that with just the Unix timestamp.
On Mar 7, 2006, at 4:56 PM, Al wrote:
Kevin Murphy wrote:
I'm trying to set up an ID field that works like this for news
articles that are posted to a website.
2006-03-05a
2006-03-05b
I know how to generate the date, and I am pretty sure I can
generate the letter code based on counting the number of rows and
then assigning the next letter (we will never have more than 26 in
a day... usually its closer to 1 or 2 per day).
The problem is if there has been something deleted.
2006-03-05a
2006-03-05c
If I then Count the rows with this date I get an answer of 2, and
so the next letter should be "c" but there already is a "c"
because "b" got deleted.
So, is there any way of generating this style ID number
automatically?
--Kevin Murphy
Webmaster - Information and Marketing Services
Western Nevada Community College
www.wncc.edu
(775) 445-3326
Why not simply use the Unix time stamp. time() If more than one can
arrive within the same second, append a letter.
If users need to see the key, use date() to decode it for them
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