Re: Auto Incrementing in PHP
| From: | Justin French | Date: | Sun, 19 Jan 2003 01:03:55 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Auto Incrementing in PHP | ||
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on 19/01/03 9:59 AM, John W. Holmes (holmes072000@charter.net) wrote:
>> Is there a way for a php page to automatically increment a number and
>> store
>> it every time the page is loaded.
>>
>> I want to generate an invoice number that goes up 1 everytime the HTML
>> form
>> is sent to it.
>
> I assume you're talking about incrementing for everyone that accesses
> your site. For that you need a database to keep track of the number for
> all users.
Or use a file-based counter. There are 1000's of counter scripts out there
both file based and database based.
Justin