Can Chronoforms Increment and pass a number?

I hate to sound so cryptic - but did not know how to state it in the title that made sense when I'm not a programmer..

I have a client that wants people to "register" so that they can receive a card that provides discounts to local consumers.

1 - The folks would fill out some information in an email form: Name, address, etc.

2 - They would send the form and the recipient would receive the reply along with a number.

3 - The number would (in my world) be generated by Chronoforms - it would be a membership number incrementing by 1. Maybe starting at 1000.

Can anything like this be done? Or am I looking at the wrong tool to try to accomplish this?

Any help is appreciated.

Thanks!

Hi cb1,

Yes, you can do that. The simplest way to do it is probably to do a 'silent' Joomla! Registration and then use the Joomla User id.

To do a silent registration you create a username from the info provided on the form and automatically generate a password. You don't even have to let the user know that's what you've done.

There are some potential problems wisht using serial numbers though; if someone knows that number 99 is valid they an make a good guess that 100, 101, . . . are also valid. For tht reason I prefer to use random strings for this kind of identifier (they can still link back to a user id inside Joomla!).

Bob