Hi, Look at uniqueid function, but it gives some lengthy string. You can use string functiions for your specific purpose. http://in.php.net/uniqueid On Sat, 5 Mar 2005 09:38:35 -0500, Ron Piggott <ron.php@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Is there a way of generating an 8 character random string in PHP? > > Is there a way to ignore UPPER and lower case when you are using the SELECT > command to find a record in the mySQL table? > > I know this isn't an HTML forum ... I have one more question which is more > HTML in nature. I don't want some of the web pages to be indexed that my > PHP scripts are creating. Is there a tag you know of to prevent this from > happening? what do you mean by indexed here? indexed by whom? search engines? zareef ahmed > > Ron > > -- > PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > -- Zareef Ahmed :: A PHP Developer in India ( Delhi ) Homepage :: http://www.zareef.net -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php