Using uniqid() - I'm a noob

[robcub]

The website I'm doing at the moment they want a URL generated with two unique numbers in it. Like this:

https://website.com/cl10/signup.php?...11&id2=8.1.1.1

Only everytime a user clicks on this the id1 and the id2 should be different. I think you can do it with PHP using uniqid() function. Does anyone know where I can find out how to do that.

Thanks

[baileylo]

srand(mktime());
$url = "http://www.website.com?id=".rand()."&id2=".rand();

[robcub]

Hi baileylo,

I added this to the HTML to try to get the link:

<a href="<?php srand(mktime()); $url = "http://www.website.com?id=".rand()."&id2=".rand(); ?>" title="">

I'm guessing that's not how you're supposed to do it? I'm a complete noob, I'm afraid.

[baileylo]

you're not printing anything
<?php
srand(mktime());
$url = ......what we already had ...;
?>

<a href="<?= $url ?>">URL</a>

That'll only work if you got short tags on

[JREAM]

You gotta echo out the $url,

<a href="<?php srand(mktime()); echo $url = "http://www.website.com?id=".rand()."&id2=".rand(); ?>" title="">

Don't use short tags! Removed for PHP 6 permanantly! (You aren't, but the guy above said something about them)

[robcub]

Thank you baileylo and JREAM. I'm using JREAM's code and it's working great. I've also started going through the tuts at W3schools to try to get some idea into my head about PHP.