Re: Cookies - good or bad???

"Phpcoder" <internet@vsa.co.za> wrote in message news:3D36C4EB.3060900@vsa.co.za... > I'm really battling with this whole session thing. > My first impressions are that cookies are OK, and really helps to make > sessions workable and efficient, YET, from a developers point of view, I [..snip..] > Does anyone out there have a view/practise when it comes to > session/cookies? - basically I am still not convinced that using > sessions/cookies is a good idea, but I would love to be educated as to > why I should... A number of people have offered their opinion why cookies are a bad idea. As a developer new to PHP, if cookies are such a big a big no-no, how does one do effective session management without storing anything client-side?? Bear in mind that the browser is stateless and, the user can disconnect and reconnect in between fetching pages from your site. Regards, Cord