Question

I can’t figure out how to encode a string + current hour in a somewhat shortish garbled result… something like:

$random = base64_encode($_POST['phone']);

with a date appended to the phone var that’s also encoded, when I do the above it comes out to a long garbled mess, I’d like it to be somewhat shorter. Is there a way to do this that I’m missing ?

Answer 1

I’ll answer your question literally, since I can’t get any insight into your actual use case or what your real goals are.

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I can’t figure out how to encode a string + current hour

$string = base64_encode('some string' . date('H'));

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something like: $random = base64_encode($_POST['phone']); with a date appended to the phone var that’s also encoded

$string = base64_encode($_POST['phone'] . base64_encode(date('H')));

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when I do the above it comes out to a long garbled mess, I’d like it to be somewhat shorter. Is there a way to do this that I’m missing ?

$my_string_length = 100;
$string = substr($string, 0, $my_string_length);

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Just keep in mind that this is not truly a random string, and that you’ll be encoding your data into a form that will prevent you from picking apart the two separate pieces of data.