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tangoforce · 10-03-2012, 09:36 PM

No! You ONLY put it in there when they click the forgot password link. It would be pointless to fill up the column with unique ids just in case. Leave the default for the column as null and only put a value there when the user clicks your lost / forgotten password link.

10-03-2012, 09:36 PM	PM User \| #18
tangoforce Senior Coder Join Date: Feb 2011 Location: Your Monitor Posts: 3,503 Thanks: 45 Thanked 439 Times in 428 Posts	No! You ONLY put it in there when they click the forgot password link. It would be pointless to fill up the column with unique ids just in case. Leave the default for the column as null and only put a value there when the user clicks your lost / forgotten password link. __________________ Please wrap your code in [php] tags. It is a sticky topic and it HELPS us to HELP YOU! TIP: Coding styles and $end errors :::::::::: TIP: Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent :::::::::: TIP: Quotes / Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_.. PHP Code: `//Please don't use this for your form processing: if (isset($_POST['submit'])) //Internet explorer has a bug and does not always send the submit value.` Explanation: The IE if(isset($_POST['submit'])) bug explained.