Re: Passing information between frames

on 17/06/02 5:08 PM, Børge Strand (borges@ifi.uio.no) wrote: > The reason for wanting this is that I won't need cookies or > server-side storage of the shopping basket. > > Any tips are welcome, my experience with php can be counted in hours, > not days or weeks! But I've done a little perl cgi before. I think you should really take a look at the reasons why other stores DON'T take this approach... these will include: - JavaScript may not be available - the most ideal way to maintain state on a web site is through sessions - frames can be problematic IMHO, any cart type system not using some form of a session (including cookies) is asking for trouble. And any session system using ONLY cookies is asking for it as well :) There's a reason wy the big sites pass a session ID around in the URL, don't use frames, don't rely on javascript, don't rely on cookies, etc etc. Justin French