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Posted by Don Hobson on 10/11/06 06:23
I am building a website and I want to allow users to do certain things
without logging in. I would like to allow them to keep track of certain
items, by adding them to a list.
Like if they are viewing multiple job listings in Houston, they can add each
job they care about to a list and when they are done looking at all the
jobs, they can view the list of say, 10 jobs. They can print the list or
email the list to themselves or someone else.
1st, what is the best way to track this user? IP address? I can have
multiple guest users online at any given time. I don't want to put them in
the database.
2nd, What is the best way to do this. Session variables? A session array?
What kind of data structure can I setup?
$visitorId = the ip address i get from $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'] or should I
just use a session_id that php provides? Is that good enough?
$userLevel = "Guest"
$time = time();
$rememberItem = array();
Every time a visitor checks the remember me checkbox next to a job, I will
add that jobId to the $rememberItem session array.
Then when they want to see all of the jobs they asked to remember, I will
display a page that calls the database using each Id to display the title
and other info about each job. Then the user can print the page.
Is that the best way to do this?
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