Re: Storing Session Variables

You don't have too worry about the overload of the server. I presume that you don't have a genuine 486DX4 with 66Mhz. The windows is lowsy on this machines. :> vio- ----- Original Message ----- From: <dpgirago@mdanderson.org> To: <php-db@lists.php.net> Sent: Wednesday, September 24, 2003 7:20 PM Subject: Re: [PHP-DB] Storing Session Variables > > Get serious for a second here... Why not explain why you're asking this > > question? If you're going to store a huge amount of data in a session, > > explain why. > > OK. Today I'm working on a prototype GUI for a medical setting ( the > production GUI will be done in C++, I believe). The GUI must keep track of > a patient's name, prescriptions, and diagnoses, as well as things like > what treatment room the patient will be seen in. Because different > treatment rooms have different equipment, and so are used for different > purposes, the user of the GUI will > begin by selecting a treatment room, which pulls up from the DB all the > patients scheduled for that room on that day. There are 6 treatment rooms, > and if a user has navigated 3 or 4 steps into the GUI then decides to > select a different treatment room ( and a different patient ), then > everything gets reset. > > Most of these variables are getting stored as session variables so that > the data persists as the user navigates further into the application. > Including things like username, password, permissions, login flag, > database, hostname, patientID, prescriptionID(s), diagnoses, treatment > room, and several other variables, I'm using about 15 session variables. > As I debug, I'm needing to sort through a growing number of variables to > see what values have been stored in them. This is getting tedious because > the list scrolls off the page. But as I develop more of the app, the need > for more persisting variables has grown, and I guess I just had a moment > of panic that I was gonna hit some limit of persisting variables. > > BTW, this GUI is for an intranet site, with perhaps 20 users max. > > You've been extremely helpful to me and many other listers here, John, and > I did not mean to perturb you in any way by my initial question. > > > David