Posted by cendrizzi on 10/05/06 17:12

Interesting ideas. With your solution tony if I press open link in a
new window (or tab) will it know to go to a new session? Or do they
have to explicity choose to go to create a new session?

On Oct 5, 10:33 am, "Tony Marston" <t...@NOSPAM.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> Readhttp://www.tonymarston.co.uk/php-mysql/client-clones.htmlfor a
> description of how I solved this very same problem.
>
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> Tony Marston
>
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>
> "cendrizzi" <cendri...@gmail.com> wrote in messagenews:1160057473.202722.19300@i3g2000cwc.googlegroups.com...
>
> > Hi all,
> > I've read some stuff on this but can't seem to come up with a solution
> > that works right. I have a semi-mature (yet very large and robust)
> > internal web application that currently only works with one window open
> > at a time.
>
> > Maybe I'm abusing the use of $_SESSION but I have data entry processes
> > split up in several steps (which is required since depending on what
> > was put before determines what pages will be shown after). To store
> > this information between the steps I use the session, which is the only
> > way I know that this would be possible (uses arrays in arrays). So if
> > I were to open up a window and start the data entry it would overwrite
> > the last one.
>
> > So one thought was trying to create an instance id that that is
> > randomly generated that is passed between the pages using a $_GET
> > variable. Using this id I would create and reference custom session
> > variables making sure each instance is completely unique. This seems
> > to be consistent with what others have tried but I don't think it would
> > work since if someone middle clicked on a page link it would open up a
> > new tab (in firefox and IE7) with the same instance id with. There
> > doesn't seem to me to be an easy way to ensure that each window in a
> > browser has it's own, unique, instance.
>
> > Surely this isn't unique to me so how in the world can I ensure that
> > each window/tab gets a unique id of some sort so that my session is
> > unique for each one?
>
> > Lastly, if necessary, I wouldn't mind trying to suppress a new window
> > but this is plagued with the same issues (how do I know it's a new
> > window/tab?). I know this is not ideal but given the nature of the
> > application this wouldn't be a big problem.
>
> > Thanks in advance.

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