Re: Persist auth over multiple pages

On Wed, 30 Jun 2004 01:19:38 -0700, Bjorn <bhansen@uvic.ca> wrote: > > Hey, > > what's the right way to get a reference to the Auth object for pages > which are not login pages? It seems like I should not have to make a > connection to the database and create a new Auth on every page if All I > want to do is call getAuth(). > The best way is to create a new Auth object for every page - while this does cause some extra load, it also ensures that any changes to how the data is stored in the session won't cause your site to stop working. I believe (although you'll need to check the docs) that if you want to reduce the number of times your connecting to the database you can pass a PEAR_DB object to the Auth constructor instead of a DSN, and it will use that instead. Jon > Bjorn > > -- > PEAR General Mailing List (http://pear.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > >