Re: Cookies Vs Sessions...?

On Fri, 2003-10-03 at 11:31, Tristan.Pretty@risk.sungard.com wrote: > Age old question...? > Please don't flame if it is.... > > I currently remember my visitors on my site by setting a cookie thusly: > > setcookie("logged", "yes"); > > On each protected page, put an IF ($logged == "yes") { //show page etc } > else {//show login form etc } > > All good, works fine hooray for me... > BUT... > > I'm aware that a slight increase in a users browsers security setting, and > this doesn't work... > So... I've started to learn..... sessions. > > I have a few questions, that my texts books seem to pussy foot around, and > I get no answer... > 1. Can sessions work in the same way as my cookies? (Just remember a value > to a variable, accross many page) Yes. > 2. can seesions be set up to work accross browser sessions? (If I close my > browser, will they work when I open a new one?) No, you need permanent cookies for this. > 3. I've seen on many web sites a 'remember me' checkbox. I'd love to learn > how to do that, is that session related? what's the step in teh right > direction to remembering that? Permanent cookie. Cheers, Rob. -- .------------------------------------------------------------. | InterJinn Application Framework - http://www.interjinn.com | :------------------------------------------------------------: | An application and templating framework for PHP. Boasting | | a powerful, scalable system for accessing system services | | such as forms, properties, sessions, and caches. InterJinn | | also provides an extremely flexible architecture for | | creating re-usable components quickly and easily. | `------------------------------------------------------------'