[usabrad86]

can someone give me a sample code to generate a unique matchid
for ex. if i type in server console amx_newmatchid i need cvar sv_matchuid to go +1 BUT i need it to be unique(lets say server crashes or...something stupid)
i cant have sv_matchuid reset to 0.. BUT is server does crash on sv_matchuid "517" i need the the next match to be 518 and so on

why i need this.. its for my HLTV server so i dont get my demos mixed up and so people can download the hltv demo with the match id that know-of

im useing HLTV-invite to send commands to hltv

this is the code have for hltv-invite

PHP Code:

public hltv_record() {
    new cmd[64]
    //GrabMatchID
    new sv_matchuid[6]
    get_cvar_string("sv_matchuid",sv_matchuid,6);

    //stop-recording before start-recording
    hltv_stoprecord()
    
    //this is the command sent to HLTV
    format(cmd, 63, "record %s",sv_matchuid);
    
    log_amx("Command sent to HLTV(%s).",cmd);
    hltv_rcon_cmd(cmd);
    return PLUGIN_CONTINUE
} 


[fysiks]

If the server crashes the cvar will be reset to the default value.

You probably need to write the number to a file and update it (write to the file) when you send the record command.

[|PJ| Shorty]

why not using systime... it´s then not a following number but really unique
if you are using mysql too you could insert the systime to a table, second coloumn with auto increment value then you have a following unique number (maybe also possible with sqlite or nvault, i don´t know)

get_systime() http://www.amxmodx.org/funcwiki.php?go=func&id=251

[usabrad86]

well if you think HLTV allready puts time stamp in the demo

but i was also thinking about useing mysql to store and grab+1
and saving that to a cvar

you think this would work better?