Unique ID that gets a date in specific format?

Question

I have code that will generate a random unique id.. but is there a way I can edit this code so that it grabs a date in a specific way like yyyy-mm-dd-0001. the last 4 digits I w

Answer 1

If you are asking for a way to keep track of how many times an ID is generated by all your site visitors using javascript alone then, no it is not possible without tying in some back end to keep track. However, the following code will do what you ask per visitor.

jsfiddle

var ttlIds = 0;

function guidGenerator() {
    var S4 = function () {
        return (((1 + Math.random()) * 0x10000) | 0).toString(16).substring(1);
    }
    return (S4() + S4() + S4());

}

function generateID() {

    var TheTextBox = document.getElementById("generateidtxt");
    TheTextBox.value = TheTextBox.value + guidGenerator().toString().toUpperCase();
    //document.getElementById("generateid").disabled=true; 

    ttlIds++;
    if(ttlIds < 10){
        ttlIds_formatted = '000'+ttlIds;
    }else if(ttlIds < 100){
        ttlIds_formatted = '00'+ttlIds;
    }else if(ttlIds < 1000){
        ttlIds_formatted = '0'+ttlIds;    
    }
    d = new Date();
    var funkydate = d.getFullYear() +'-' + (d.getMonth()+1) + '-' + d.getDate() + '-' + ttlIds_formatted;
    document.getElementById("funkydate").value = funkydate;

}

Answer 2

You can use the following object:

var idGenerator  = {
    seq: 0,
    generateId: function () {
       this.seq++;
       return (new Date()).toISOString().substring(0, 10) + '-' + ('000' + this.seq).substr(-4)
    }
}

after declaration like this, try

function generateID() {
   var TheTextBox = document.getElementById("generateidtxt");
   TheTextBox.value = TheTextBox.value + idGenerator.generateId();
   document.getElementById("generateid").disabled=true;    
}