Re: Reliability of sessions

I use sessions every day and they are extremely reliable. I have no problems with them. And they would easily do what you want. Now getting to that stage took a lot of blood and sweat, but I would say it's definitely worth it due to the ease that sessions handles data. Cheers! Rick When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us. - Alexander Graham Bell > From: Thomas Deliduka <thomas@neweve.com> > Date: Thu, 04 Apr 2002 16:54:13 -0500 > To: PHP List <php-general@lists.php.net> > Subject: Re: [PHP] Reliability of sessions > > On 4/4/02 4:46 PM this was written: > >> I am not sure about the reliability of sessions, but the way I do it is >> also through several processes, and the information passed via <input >> type=hidden name=name value=$name> I can demonstrate it if you want. > > That's what I was wanting to avoid. That's a lot of hidden fields. Not to > mention if you have to add to the first step, you need to modify all the > others. > >> Even though sessions are more handy, I still don't know what happens if >> cookies are disabled in the client's browser. > > I pass the session ID in the URL on every page so whether or not cookies are > set, the session stays intact. > > I'm thinking that I solved my old problem and I'm going to do it in the > database and pass the order number. That's probably the best way. I only > have to provide for order clean-up for those that started the process and > decided not to check out. > > -- > > Thomas Deliduka > IT Manager > ------------------------- > New Eve Media > The Solution To Your Internet Angst > http://www.neweve.com/ > > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php >