--- a/add_search.php	Thu May 21 12:20:19 2009 +0100
+++ b/add_search.php	Thu May 21 12:58:40 2009 +0100
@@ -1,4 +1,28 @@
 <?php
+	function genID($seed, $length)
+	{
+        $ID = "";
+        srand($seed);
+        for($i = 0; $i < $length; $i++)
+        {
+                $chtype = rand(1, 3);
+                switch($chtype)
+                {
+                case 1: // 0-9
+                        $ID .= chr(rand(48, 57));
+                        break;
+                case 2: // A-Z
+                        $ID .= chr(rand(65, 90));
+                        break;
+                case 3: // a-z
+                        $ID .= chr(rand(97, 122));
+                        break;
+                }
+        }
+        return $ID;
+
+	}
+
 	// URL validate function
 	function validUrl($str)
 	{
@@ -38,8 +62,12 @@
 		$conn = mysql_connect('localhost','www-data','www-data') or die(mysql_error());
 		mysql_select_db('members');
 
-		$query = mysql_query("INSERT INTO requests_tbl (req_ID, uid, req_val, req_response, req_created) VALUES ('', '$currID', '$search_term', 0, CURDATE())");
-		$query2 =  mysql_query("SELECT MAX(req_ID) as id FROM requests_tbl");
+		$seed = crc32($search_term);
+                $req_ID = genID($seed + time(), 30);
+
+		$query = mysql_query("INSERT INTO requests_tbl (req_ID, uid, req_val, req_response, req_created) VALUES ('$req_ID', '$currID', '$search_term', 0, CURDATE())");
+#		$query2 =  mysql_query("SELECT MAX(req_ID) as id FROM requests_tbl");
+		$query2 =  mysql_query("SELECT req_ID as id FROM requests_tbl");
 		mysql_close();
 		
 		while ($db_field2 = mysql_fetch_assoc($query2)) 
@@ -48,7 +76,9 @@
 		}
 		
 		// construct message string
-		$message = "#" . $currID . "#" . $reqID . "#" . $search_term;
+#		$message = "#" . $currID . "#" . $reqID . "#" . $search_term;
+		$message = "#" . $reqID . "#" . $search_term;
+
 		
 		$host="localhost";
 		$port = 9090;
@@ -71,7 +101,7 @@
 		}
 		  
 		fclose($sk);
-		
+	 header ('Location: http://' . $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'] . dirname($_SERVER['PHP_SELF']) . 'details.php');	
 		//header ('Location: http://' . $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'] . dirname($_SERVER['PHP_SELF']) . '/details.php?alert=add');
 	} 
 ?>