Posted by Jack Jackson on 11/14/77 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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