Brelfsheerb
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I'm toying with the idea of creating automatic electronic certificates. It's pretty easy to create custom certificates using the fpdf PHP class. The way I have it set up is that given a URL\[code\]http://www.example.com/makepdf.php?name=myname&class=classname\[/code\]you get a PDF certificate with the student name and the class they took taken from the $_GET variable. Of course, this means that anyone could manipulate the URL to very easily create a custom certificate. (They could do this in Photoshop anyway, but the idea is to make manipulating the certificate not totally trivial.) Once a class is over, I want to send a mail merge to everyone with a unique URL for their certificate. How would you approach this problem? Should I just create a set of random numbers and associate these with the student/workshop pairs in a database? Are there standard ways of approaching this problem?