Coupon length?

Hi marcjanik, in class-gens-raf-public.php, with a bit of php knowledget, there is generate_coupons method which you can work on to lower number of letters coupon can have.

Marking resolved as i havent heard back, reply if you still need help.

Best,
Goran

Within public function generate_coupons( $user_id ), on its 3rd line shows $coupon_code = substr( "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz123456789", mt_rand(0, 50) , 1) .substr( md5( time() ), 1); // Code

Why is it mt_rand(0, 50) instead of mt_rand(0, 34) since there are only 35 characters in the string of the first portion?

• substr( "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz123456789", mt_rand(0, 50) , 1) returns only 1 character
• substr( md5( time() ), 1) returns the last 31 out of 32 characters.

I’ll change the second portion to substr( md5( time() ), mt_rand(0, 31), 9) ), which will randomly pick the start of the 32 characters, and extract the next 9 characters from that point. At least, this will shorten the overall code length to 10 characters.

By the way, is there any way not to hack into your plugin? Perhaps a hook will be better.

Hey Jason,

ill see to add hooks in the next version on couple of functions that should be changed by devs.

You are correct for the above, it was probably copied from some of mine code snippets, will correct it in some update

I look forward to your next release, Goran. Thank you.

I managed to get 10 character coupons as well (by editing file that you mentioned). And I’m also looking forward for an update or even you creating paid plugin with more options!