Re: session or cookie

The cookie in Browser limited number of 30 cookies, isn't it? ******* Steve Nelson <m@secretagents.com> wrote in message news:3A0C6196.D554E223@secretagents.com... > sessions are variables stored on the server, cookies are variables > stored in the browser. cookies have a limitation for how much > information they can store. I think it's around 4K per domain. So if > you need to store more information than that you're pretty much screwed > with cookies. > > Cookies are slightly faster in that they do not hit the server as hard, > but at the same time if you use large cookies they add to the amount of > data that has to be downloaded, which slows things down a little. > > The cool thing about session variables is that there is a unique > identifier to more data on the server, so the user cannot actually > change the data by editing their cookie file. At the very most they > could only change the identifier, which wouldn't really matter. > > Even with the speed issues, use session vars, they're more flexible and > they add one more layer of security. :) > > Steve Nelson > http://www.SecretAgents.com > Tools for Fusebox Developers > > Mark Lo wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > I would like to know what is the difference between session and > > cookies. > > > > Thank you > > > > Mark lo > > > > -- > > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > > For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net > > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net > > -- > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net >