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

I never heard of this php function, "link()". Sound like a good function, I'm going to have to look it up! Thanks, FletchSOD "Justin French" <justin@indent.com.au> wrote in message news:B95D3149.ACFE%justin@indent.com.au... > 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 >