I'm generating a 6 digit code from the following characters. These will be used to stamp on stickers.
They will be generated in batches of 10k or less (before printing) and I don't envisage there will ever be more than 1-2 million total (probably much less).
After I generate the batches of codes, I'll check the MySQL database of existing codes to ensure there are no duplicates.
// exclude problem chars: B8G6I1l0OQDS5Z2
$characters = 'ACEFHJKMNPRTUVWXY4937';
$string = '';
for ($i = 0; $i < 6; $i++) {
$string .= $characters[rand(0, strlen($characters) - 1)];
}
return $string;
- Is this a solid approach to generating the code?
- How many possible permutations would there be? (6 Digit code from pool of 21 characters). Sorry math isn't my strong point