Re: Session-Id or Cookie or...

check the manual for the settings of time and duration .... Use cookie to identify returning user Use session to follow user from one page to another for the second mail: You can pass the session variable through the url (check manual) You wont be able to recognize returning user without cookie unless he will log on. Martin Thoma wrote: > Hello ! > > I want to write a (yet another) free email-card-sending-system. > Therefore, I have to identify the user while he is inputting the > parameters of one card on several pages. > > It would also be nice that the user would find the card he was working > on let's say 14 days after he startet to create it. > > My question is: What's the best to do it ? > > Using a cookie to identify a file on my web-server, where all the > variables of the card are stored ? > > Using a session-id (since I'm new on PHP, I don't know so much about it > yet). Where are the session-variables stored INTERNALLY ? How can I set > a "livetime" of x days ? > > Using something else ? > > Regards > > Martin > > -- > 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 -- -------------------------- Canaan Surfing Ltd. Internet Service Providers Ben-Nes Michael - Manager Tel: 972-6-6925757 Fax: 972-6-6925858 http://www.canaan.co.il --------------------------