Re: Passing variables between pages

tedd wrote:

At 12:42 PM -0400 9/19/08, Dan Joseph wrote:

On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 12:35 PM, tedd <tedd.sperling@gmail.com> wrote:

At 12:22 PM -0400 9/19/08, Jason Pruim wrote: It's interesting that another topic (i.e. [PHP] SESSIONS vs. MySQL) is discussing the differences in storing variables in SESSIONS as compared to

storing them in MySQL when using this technique would not require

either.

You've definitely raised an interesting topic. Question though... a system requires different levels of access to see various parts of the system. How does your method of doing things w/o sessions accomidate that? Does it use that information from the origin POST? Also, is this secure? Any loop holes?

I don't see any loop holes and it's secure as any other php script. The technique holds all variables intact, including POST, GET, SESSION, et all arrays. This does work -- as shown by this: http://www.webbytedd.com/bb/tedd/index.php Here's another example: http://www.webbytedd.com/bb/php-run-php/ Note that $test is defined and populated with "This is a test" at the start of the parent script -- however, the contents of the variable remain regardless of which script you choose. Cheers, tedd

sorry to wade in on this one but it seem's like a bit of false logic to me; and isn't actually doing anything different than standard php functionality. (includes always have access to get/post/session/server and variables defined before the script was included) For years people have simply ran a whole website through a single index.php and called the modules via include (the whole ?mod=contact era) This is exactly the same; you don't need $_SESSION's in this case because all you're doing is POST'ing the data every time.. from the source of you're demo: "<input type='hidden' name='var2' value='This is another string here'> <p> <input type=submit value='Click to Continue"'> </p> " Thus all we are talking about is replacing session with multiple posts to carry the data; which is a nightmare; shows up awful messages if a user clicks back in IE and asks the user to resend data in firefox where obviously they'll be like er what data did I send :o Am I missing something here..? Regards and no ill-intention meant. Nathan