Posted by The Eclectic Electric on 10/30/06 14:28

"peter" <submit@flexiwebhost.com> wrote in message
news:ehva3m$hj4$1@chiara.aioe.org...
>> Anyway, yesterday I started to implement sessions on my site. I'd set up
>> a user on my user database as was very proud when I could log myself in.
>> Then I set about transferring the data from the user table to session
>> variables and changing all the places I'd put in temporary hard-coded
>> values. It was very exciting. Then I tried to login again and that was
>> fine, but when I hit the main page, it had all gone very badly wrong.
>
> by the sounds of it you did the work on your live site. If that is the
> case I would advise in future that you setup a copy of your site and test
> and code with that first. when everything is sorted and tested then and
> only then transfer the site to the live site and of course test again.
>
> This way down time is at a minimal and there will not be such a rush to
> fix any problems.

Wise words. It is a live site insofar as I'm testing and programming in the
live environment (my host has a different PHP/MySQL build to me), but the
site is not live yet (no index page for instance). This is just a training
exercise for me really to get me up to speed for when I start on my more
serious projects, but it is good counsel to remind me not to be so blase
with those.

+e

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