Create, Insert, and Export Random Fields

[igo]

Hi,

 

I need to create a bunch of random unique coupon codes that are stored in a MySQL database and can be exported to give to the printer. My thinking is that I would use a PHP script that was ran from the command line to create, store, and export the newly created codes in a CSV. I would like to specify the number of codes it creates as a variable. That way I could create 100 or 1000 at a time depending on what I needed. So I came up with the following code, but it only creates, inserts, and exports one row. Which makes sense because I haven't specified anywhere in the code to create X number of coupons codes, i don't know where to do that at or how. I need to know how to get it to create whatever number of rows I specify(100, 1000, 5000, etc). Any ideas?

 

Thanks in advance!

<?PHP
// Random String Function
function random_string($length='12')
{
$ran_string = "";
$chars = array("1", "2", "3", "4", "5", "6", "7", "8", "9", "0", "a", "A", "b", "B", "c",

"C", "d", "D", "e", "E", "f", "F", "g", "G", "h", "H", "i", "I", "j", "J", "k", "K", "l",

"L", "m", "M", "n", "N", "o", "O", "p", "P", "q", "Q", "r", "R", "s", "S", "t", "T", "u",

"U", "v", "V", "w", "W", "x", "X", "y", "Y", "z", "Z");

$count = count($chars) - 1;

srand((double)microtime() * 1000000);

for ($i = 0; $i < $length; $i++)
{
$ran_string .= $chars[rand(0, $count)];
}

return($ran_string);
}

//Variables
$limitnumber = $argv[1];
$date = date('mdYHi');
$CouponCode = random_string();

//Connect to DB
$link = mysql_connect('localhost','user','pass');
if (!$link) {
    die('Could not connect: ' . mysql_error());
}

//Upload Coupon codes
$query = mysql_query("INSERT INTO mediahub.Coupons (CouponCode, Date) VALUES (\"$CouponCode\", \"$date\");");

if (!$query) {
    echo "Could not successfully run query against the DB: " . mysql_error();
    exit;
};

//Select Coupon Codes Outfile
$result2 = mysql_query("SELECT CouponCode into outfile '/tmp/CouponCodes_$date.csv' fields terminated by ',' lines terminated by '\n' FROM mediahub.Coupons WHERE date =$date");

if (!$result2) {
    echo "Could not successfully run query against the DB: " . mysql_error();
    exit;
}
printf("Number of Coupon Codes Successfully Generated: %d\n", mysql_affected_rows());

?>

[kicken]

Just wrap the bit of code that generates and saves the coupon code in a loop. Then run your export after everything is generated.

 

$limit = $_SERVER['argv'][1];
for ($i=0; $i<$limit; $i++){
   $code = random_string(); 
   $sql = 'INSERT INTO ...';
   $query = mysql_query($sql);
   ...
}

//Then export
$sql = 'SELECT ...';
$result2 = mysql_query($sql);
...

[igo]

Worked perfectly! Thanks!