Re: Cookie Variables Maxing Out Using IE6

On Wed, August 16, 2006 9:00 am, dpgirago@mdanderson.org wrote: > Does IE6 limit somehow/somewhere the number of cookie variables I can > create and store? Richard Lynch responded: > Yes. > > Read the Cookie spec. > > There's no need for any site to ever send more than ONE Cookie anyway. > > Just use session_start() and you can store all the stuff in $_SESSION > and it's all tied to the one Cookie. > > Users like me who set the browser to prompt for Cookies will often > LEAVE a site that is being stupid and sending too many cookies, unless > we really really really need your content, which is unlikely. So you're calling my app "stupid", Richard?? <lol> To clarify, the app is for a small group of known users on an intranet, and yes, they really really need the content. There are 24 check boxes, and each selection triggers a graphical display of radiation levels in a specific area over the last hour. Since the active areas - 12 to 15 usually - don't change all that much over time, I thought it would make sense to have the app "remember" which boxes had been checked at last launch. I didn't like the idea of using cookies, so I actually have a database solution in place. But I've not dealt much with cookies, and I had some time and tried to use them to solve the problem. That's when I ran into the 20 cookie limit with IE (Having just read the spec, I'm surprised that Microsoft has actually followed it). Unless there's something basic about $_SESSION variables I've missed, I don't believe they would work here. I need to track and remember which boxes are checked between sessions, not within a single session. Someone please correct me if I'm mistaken. Thanks again to Adam Zey for suggesting I serialize the cookie data. That solved the problem. David