Please help me. Random Characters

[nulled1986]

Hello i have a problem on my small project site

On this site https://codebin.pl/ i need random characters when i create a post.

now it looks like it just takes ID " https://codebin.pl/64 " and i want it to look like this " https://codebin.pl/euhkjdsdjs "

Please help me what to change and how

Script from github: https://github.com/jordansamuel/PASTE

 

[Custom B]

I take it the #205 issue request 5h ago comes from you as well? Maybe wait a bit for the developer to give you an "official" solution before hacking around the code?

Regards!

 

[nulled1986]

The programmer does not answer, there have already been such questions with him and silence, I wrote only to him prophylactically.

 

[Custom B]

The programmer does not answer, there have already been such questions with him and silence, I wrote only to him prophylactically.

Oh ok, i understand

 

[slvrsteele]

This is a very raw, quick heads up about what to do

Alter table "pastes" and add bew field "unique_id" type text
in your paste creation you may add something like

function uuid() {
$uid = random_bytes(16);
// check if uid already exists in database
if (check_uid($uid)) {
  uuid();
}
return $uid;
}

function check_uid($uid = null) {
$query  = "SELECT * FROM pastes WHERE id='$uid'";
$result = mysqli_query($con, $query);
if (mysqli_num_rows($result) > 0) {
  // return true
   return true;
}
return false;
}

Then add $uid into mysql query to save into database, also when listing your pastes instead of $id use $unique_id from db

 

[nulled1986]

Oh my god that is where and what because I'm already lost

 

[nulled1986]

I think I need a ready-made solution, or write like a child

 

[slvrsteele]

Oh my god that is where and what because I'm already lost

As I said, it's only a heads-up not the full refined code to add. You may consider it a starting point (big one).
As you can see in my signature I rarely offer full solutions for production sites for 2 reasons:
1. My free time is totally limited so I can rarely do free complete solutions
2. I do consider that whoever starts on its own has at least medium knowledge of programming and debugging.

You can either ask the developer to add it, hire a programmer to do it, or do it yourself.