Customer number (ID?)

[BandofHand]

Hello all!

 

I've been poking around in the shop (ver 1.5.5.0) for a little while and think I have most things under control or figured out. But one thing bugs me and I can't seem to find a solution no matter how I look in the forum (unless one count very old posts which doesn't help very much).

 

To the problem... I want to change the way a customer get his/her number. As it is now, they are numbered 000001, 2, 3 and so on. But I would like to have it configured by the days date, like this: 20131003-1 (First customer registering today, second would end with -2) and increase as they register.

 

Is it at all possible? Or I should leave it alone and just use an addon to change the customer number instead and keep it the way it is by default?

 

I'm kind of new to this so please be very specific and straight forward 

[vekia]

in my opinion it's bad idea to change customer ID number, it's because this field is based on INT auto increment field and this is necessary for databases based on mysql mainly due to the idea of primary keys, indexes etc.

 

you've got customer register date field, why to duplicate it? it will be a bit redundant

[BandofHand]

Thanks for the reply Vekia. I'll just leave it alone then so I don't go mess things up