Re: Cookie or Session??

Thanks Mike, I think using session will solve the problem of some user having difficulties in loign. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mike Brum" <php@crazyted.com> To: <php-general@lists.php.net> Sent: Friday, March 21, 2003 4:12 PM Subject: RE: [PHP] Cookie or Session?? > It really depends on what you want to do. > > Cookies are client-side information and thus you can run into issues where > clients don't allow cookies, have cookie-blocking apps or have outdated > software that doesn't support them (though the latter continues to become > less of an option as time passes). > > Sessions are server-side information that allows you a lot more control of > the information and allows better manipulation of it. PHP has really nice > session management and makes using them quite painless. The only downside > really is that it adds more load to your servers. > > If you have a machine that's not under insane load all the time, you might > want to give sessions a try. Once everything's configged properly (which > shouldn't be hard at all - and it might even be turned on already!), to get > a user to log in, all you'll need to do is perform the DB password > authentication and then pass the session information from script to script. > > Good luck. > > -Mike > > -----Original Message----- > From: Awlad Hussain [mailto:php@sheridan-phoenix.com] > Sent: Friday, March 21, 2003 11:00 AM > To: php-general@lists.php.net > Subject: [PHP] Cookie or Session?? > > > Managing user login > Whats the best option to use.. cookie?? or session?? > > Currently i am using cookies and sometime user complain they can't login, > > what would you suggest? > -awlad > > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php >