Title: Developer requested: Generate unique ID per slideshow?
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Developer requested: Generate unique ID per slideshow?

 *  Resolved [wzshop](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wzshop/)
 * (@wzshop)
 * [13 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/developer-requested-generate-unique-id-per-slideshow/)
 * Hello,
    I was wondering if someone can help me to get/generate an unique ID per
   slideshow, so i can use it as in reference in other scripts.
 * Anyone who can help me? Small budget available.
    Hope to hear from you. Robbert
 * [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/slideshow-jquery-image-gallery/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/slideshow-jquery-image-gallery/)

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 *  Thread Starter [wzshop](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wzshop/)
 * (@wzshop)
 * [13 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/developer-requested-generate-unique-id-per-slideshow/#post-3685912)
 * Fixed it:
    in views/slideshowplugin/slideshow.php
 *     ```
       <?php if (empty($_SESSION['count'])) {
          $_SESSION['count'] = 1;
       } else {
          $_SESSION['count']++;
       } ?>
       ```
   
 * In /slideshow.php
 *     ```
       if(isset($_SESSION['count'])):
         unset($_SESSION['count']);
         endif;
       ```
   
 * and in views/slideshowplugin/slideshowslide/frontend_attachment:
 *     ```
       if(empty($url))
       			$anchorTagAttributes = 'rel="lightbox[' . $_SESSION['count'] . ']" href="' . $imageSrc . '" ' . (!empty($urlTarget) ? ' target="' . $urlTarget . '" ' : '');
       ```
   
 * For more detailed info, leave a response.
 *  [1timothy412](https://wordpress.org/support/users/1timothy412/)
 * (@1timothy412)
 * [12 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/developer-requested-generate-unique-id-per-slideshow/#post-3686079)
 * Do you just add those to the plugin’s code, and if so, won’t it be erased in 
   a plugin update?
 *  [netdiva790](https://wordpress.org/support/users/netdiva790/)
 * (@netdiva790)
 * [12 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/developer-requested-generate-unique-id-per-slideshow/#post-3686081)
 * Can these ids be used for anything else? Like to generate a unique id for an 
   entry/post?

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## Tags

 * [generate](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/generate/)
 * [get](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/get/)
 * [id](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/id/)
 * [slideshow](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/slideshow/)

 * 3 replies
 * 3 participants
 * Last reply from: [netdiva790](https://wordpress.org/support/users/netdiva790/)
 * Last activity: [12 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/developer-requested-generate-unique-id-per-slideshow/#post-3686081)
 * Status: resolved