RE: [PHP-DB] tracking users...
| From: | Peter Lovatt | Date: | Mon, 21 Jan 2002 21:08:59 +0000 |
| Subject: | RE: [PHP-DB] tracking users... | ||
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Hi
I use
$sessionID = md5(uniqid(rand()));
setcookie (sessionID , $sessionID ,0 , "" , "" ,0);
which works
hth
Peter
> -----Original Message-----
> From: jas [mailto:jlgerfen@hotmail.com]
> Sent: 22 January 2002 06:51
> To: php-db@lists.php.net
> Subject: [PHP-DB] tracking users...
>
>
> I am fairly new to PHP and have setup a site that connects to a
> MySQL db to
> store different information from our users, however what I would like to
> setup is something that I could place on a few pages to track users for
> demographic purposes. What I need to do is as a page is visited I need to
> generate a random alpha numeric identifier to be used as a
> session variable
> for a cookie and also have that cookie's information be placed
> into a MySQL
> database for later retrieval. If anyone has a good resource tutorial on
> this type of function I would greatly appriciate it. Oh and yes
> I have done
> quite a bit of research on php.net on both the session() and the
> setcookie()
> functions. =) Thanks again. Jas
>
>
>
>
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