I'm attempting to create a new page every time a form is submitted. It'll be an order status page- one that'll be updated periodically. Basically, I want the user to see a form confirmation page, and I want it to be permanent link (that they can visit later).
My first thought was using variables in the URL, like so:
http://www.example.org/member.php?id=123
And then calling the id using GET
echo $_GET['id'];
http://www.example.org/member.php would be a template, just waiting for the few details which are specific to the user.
Once I have this in place, I could use a simple if statement to check their order status.
For example,
if ($id === "user_id") {
echo "Your order is: Pending";
}
However, this seems like a bad idea, just for the security aspect of it. If someone else guesses a user ID, they can view their order status. Going off of that, here's my first question.
If the user ID is long enough, is this a secure practice?
Otherwise, what are some other methods of doing this? Creating a new page every time the form is submitted feels like a bad practice- people could spam it, and there's a possibility that someone could exploit this to create malicious pages on the site.
Any suggestions? Most major retail sites have order confirmation pages (think ebay.com)- how do they do it? Also, is my suggested URL format secure?
