Reply To: Random code field for coupons system

• Keith Lock

• September 14, 2017 at 2:21 am

@shonlevi

Hmmm… this could be tricky.

First… have a peek through this thread here.

You will see that.. in order to pre-populate a repeater, the rows will have to exist ahead of time.

What if…

1) You had a ‘codename’ text field.
2) You had a ‘howmany’ number field (to decide how many codes to generate).
3) You had a textarea field to store your coupons…
… you could store them one per line (and just ‘append’ them when you add more), and then separate the data with a “pipe” | symbol to deal with later. You can use the PHP explode() function to split the data by the “pipe” symbol.

Example:

Codename: EXAMPLE
Howmany: 3
Generated Coupons:

Name1|Description1|Example122
Name2|Description2|Example123
Name3|Description4|Example999

Here’s a page that describes how to extract each line from a textarea field. Then, of course, use ‘explode’ to separate the data from each line.

Hope that helps. There may be a better way, it’s just not coming to me if so 🙂