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Here's a scenario. I am setting up a sponsor referral link. If any user signs up on the site through that referral link, they will be matched with the sponsor of that referral link. Normally I can do this using a simple GET method but I want to use cookies so that the referral link will be valid for 30 days. So if a user decides to come back to the site a week later, they will still be matched with that sponsor assuming they haven't deleted their cookies. For eg. // referral link mysite.com/signup?sponsor=john Here is my cookie code. The issue i am having is that if I go to a different page on the site and come back to the signup page, the cookie gets reset or becomes invalid. Can you tell me what i'm doing wrong? Do I have to use the database to store the cookies or what? $get_user = $_GET['sponsor']; $number_of_days = 30 ; $date_of_expiry = time() + 60 * 60 * 24 * $number_of_days ; setcookie( "sponsor", $get_user, $date_of_expiry); if(isset($_COOKIE['sponsor'])) { echo 'set'; } else { echo 'not set'; }
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I have a simple user login where it inserts the user session into database like this (id, user_id, hash). It works fine. I can delete the session from the database when the user logs out. Now I realized something. When I close the browser window, it'll destroy the session(log out the user) as intended but it won't delete the session from the database. I was wondering if there is a way to do that?
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I'm making my own CMS for my company so going through making the pages for the back end. What I want to do that I'm stuck on is -------------- I want to allow the user to specify how many input text fields they want shown on the page. I'm thinking that they could write a number then click submit, send the data to the same page (PHP self or action blank) and then the required amount of input fields would be echoed out. Echoing out is easy, I want to know how to find out how many fields are required, and then process it. Thanks in advance. -
SELECT user_id FROM users WHERE active = :active ORDER BY RAND() LIMIT 1 The above query works. But what if the users table is filled with thousands of users? Will this query break or be very slow? If so, what's the alternative solution to this?
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Say I want to allow users to chat with each other either through text or video on my site, what would be the best way to go on about doing that? I know basic text chat system can be created with PHP/Mysql/Ajax. What about video chat? Or is there a chat plugin/service out there that I can use to implement in my site? Note that I am looking for something can allow thousands of registered users to chat with each other at the same time.