|  | Posted by Jack Jackson on 06/19/77 11:22 
Mark Rees wrote:> "André Medeiros" <andre.caum@gmail.com> wrote in message
 > news:1122558897.3590.11.camel@vaio...
 >
 >>The point of sessions is that when you close your browser, you loose it.
 >>I'm affraid that if you want sessions that last two weeks, you'll have
 >>to make your own session handler :) but yeah, it's possible, and it
 >>beats the crap out of the "fill form, store in db, fill form, store in
 >>db" method.
 >
 >
 > Unless your user wishes to complete the form from a different machine, of
 > course.
 >
 > I really don't understand the dogmatic antipathy to storing information in
 > the database. Sometimes it is a better solution - horses for courses.
 > Rolling your own session management tool, whilst undoubtedly fun and
 > satisfying, is hardly an appropriate solution to this type of enquiry, which
 > is apparently from someone taking their first steps in web development.
 >
 > I should probably explain that I come from an ASP background and so have an
 > inherent mistrust of sessions, although I am coming to understand that PHP
 > sessions are much more reliable.
 >
 > Sorry about the three posts before, my mistake.
 >
 
 
 
 
 No, I think I wasn't clear because of a fundamental misunderstanding on
 my part of the problem of SESSIONS not lasting between ... uh...
 sessions. In fact I think my very first post on the subject did in fact
 say I wanted to store the answers on the db throughout the process, but
 I got so excited at the prospect of having sessions store things that I
 got distracted.
 
 Anyway, thanks again to all who replied and for all the help I generally
 receive here on the list!!
 
 JJ
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