Re: Multipage form redux

Mark Rees wrote:

"André Medeiros" <andre.caum@gmail.com> wrote in message news:1122558897.3590.11.camel@vaio...

The point of sessions is that when you close your browser, you loose it. I'm affraid that if you want sessions that last two weeks, you'll have to make your own session handler :) but yeah, it's possible, and it beats the crap out of the "fill form, store in db, fill form, store in db" method.

Unless your user wishes to complete the form from a different machine, of course. I really don't understand the dogmatic antipathy to storing information in the database. Sometimes it is a better solution - horses for courses. Rolling your own session management tool, whilst undoubtedly fun and satisfying, is hardly an appropriate solution to this type of enquiry, which is apparently from someone taking their first steps in web development. I should probably explain that I come from an ASP background and so have an inherent mistrust of sessions, although I am coming to understand that PHP sessions are much more reliable. Sorry about the three posts before, my mistake.

No, I think I wasn't clear because of a fundamental misunderstanding on my part of the problem of SESSIONS not lasting between ... uh... sessions. In fact I think my very first post on the subject did in fact say I wanted to store the answers on the db throughout the process, but I got so excited at the prospect of having sessions store things that I got distracted. Anyway, thanks again to all who replied and for all the help I generally receive here on the list!! JJ