Re: Re: Cookies - good or bad???

on 19/07/02 1:19 AM, Cord Schneider (oo6jmt8en001@sneakemail.com) wrote: > 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. You pass the session around in the URL Something like <A HREF="page.php?SID">click here</a>, or you might build a wrapper function that does it for you: <A HREF="<?=link('page.php')?>">click here</a>. Yes, that's every internal (relative) URL on your whole site :) It becomes a trade-off between the convent but unreliable cookies, versus the 100% accessible, but perhaps time consuming/tricky URL method. As has been said on this list MANY times, just have a look at the big sites like amazon.com -- no cookies, no javascript, no reliance on client-side for anything. Take care of it all server-side, where you have a controlled environment. Justin French