Programming Preferences
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My previous employer banned session variables. They projected millions of users and didn't want all that memory floating around for 20 minutes before being released in the case the user was just there for a second. Their other argument was that they were going to a server farm and didn't want to keep the sessions coordinated. The place I'm at now does not have that much traffic so Sessions are fine with us. Our problem is sessions timing out and the users complaining they lost their work will they were yakking on the phone. We use cookies as well, but not as much. Some of our users are still terrified of cookies and disable them. In worst cases we stash the data in a database record and pull it back later. Not a good solution either.
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BrainiacV wrote:
In worst cases we stash the data in a database record and pull it back later. Not a good solution either.
Agreed - there is the fun of redundant DB entries then...and no built in mechanism to expire old data.
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If you have to move to web page 2 on a button click on page one, and page 2 totally depends on data input by user on page one, what approach would you choose to share data between the pages? Would it be session or cross-post or something else? Any why?
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I prefer session variables to share info between pages.
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I always use Sessions (unless I'm trying to pass a huge object and then I'll just pass a reference to it instead).
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If you have to move to web page 2 on a button click on page one, and page 2 totally depends on data input by user on page one, what approach would you choose to share data between the pages? Would it be session or cross-post or something else? Any why?
"Bastards encourage idiots to use Oracle Forms, Web Forms, Access and a number of other dinky web publishing tolls.", Mycroft Holmes[^]
I believe it depend of the size and sensitivity of the data you just passing. There are whole religions in favor every method. In my opinion a good programmer will never set a barrier just for the shake of 'preferences', but will learn the needs and deeds of the system an act in the best way...
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