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aschmidtm

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I need a way to assign a unique id # (starting at 00000001 and up to 99999999) to every article, except replies and/or comments to the article given the unique id #. I would like to be able to refer back to an article just by typing in an 8 digit number. Has anyone seen this or know how to get started. I would appreciate any knowledge.
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I don't know of anyone who has done this, but if you feel brave you could probably hack up COM_makesid() in lib-common.php to accomplish approximately what you want.

Alternatively you could just add a column to the gl_stories table that auto increments and assign values 0, 1, 2, 3, ... to your existing stories.

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A. Nonnimus

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Quote by vinny: Alternatively you could just add a column to the gl_stories table that auto increments and assign values 0, 1, 2, 3, ... to your existing stories.


How should this be done in Geeklog 1.3.9sr1? I tried the following statement:

ALTER TABLE gl_stories ADD COLUMN article_number SMALLINT UNSIGNED NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT;

and I got the following error:

ERROR 1075: Incorrect table definition; There can only be one auto column and it must be defined as a key

So how should I add this auto-incrementing column to the gl_stories table, starting at number 1 and going up?

Thanks for any advice!
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ALTER TABLE gl_stories ADD COLUMN article_number SMALLINT UNSIGNED NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT, ADD KEY (article_number);

 


The above is the SQL you are looking for (or something similar). What you were missing is the "add key" portion which is necessary for an auto_increment field.

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zoombabwe

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thanks a lot for the reply, vinny...now, is there any way to make this number stick? for instance, if a number gets assigned to a story, and then the story is subsequently edited, the number ticks up again. (if i edit story 1, and my most recently added story is story 10, the edited story 1 becomes story 11.) is there a simple SQL way to do this?

thanks again!
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I don't see this behavior. For me the auto increment value stays.

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zoombabwe

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really, it stays the same? i wonder if i should upgrade (or downgrade!?) MySQL. I'm using 4.0.18. I've tried ADD KEY, ADD INDEX, and ADD UNIQUE, and the auto_increment value ticks up if either a story or a draft story is edited.

It also ticks up if a story is deleted, but I would kind of expect that, and I figure there's nothing to do about it except reset the auto_incrementing column...

thanks for your reply vinny.
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