Re: Cookies & page refresh

Thanks. It seems that I tested the right things but in a wrong order... -Will "Chris" <dmagick@gmail.com> kirjoitti viestissä:457F832E.3020000@gmail.com... > William Stokes wrote: >> Hello, >> >> I have a page that uses session cookies for deciding what content to show >> to a visitor. User also has 2 form objecks to apply filters to the >> content SQL queries. So at the beginning of the script I set 2 cookies >> based on user selections(or defaults) and after that make DB query based >> on user selections. I wanted to use cookies because there also "back - >> up - forward" links for pagination. >> >> Problem is that in order to get the cookie based system to work the page >> needs a refresh to read the cookies and display content corretly. Is this >> because the page loads faster than the server set's the cookies to client >> browser? If so what's the "corrert" / best way to implement the filters >> and page navigation if there's 2 form select lists and 3 links to >> navigate the page. > > Use a session variable instead. Otherwise I could modify the cookie and > change the query / queries being run really easily... causing sql > injection and a bunch of other issues. > > -- > Postgresql & php tutorials > http://www.designmagick.com/