C'Mon Claude, store a 4 character value to the db, and hit the db for that value every time a session starts? Just use the cookie. If there's a lot of info, then sure, but don't add unnecessary overhead if you don't have to.
Steve 'Cutter' Blades Adobe Community Professional Adobe Certified Expert Advanced Macromedia ColdFusion MX 7 Developer ____________ http://cutterscrossing.com Co-Author "Learning Ext JS 3.2" Packt Publishing 2010 https://www.packtpub.com/learning-ext-js-3-2-for-building-dynamic-desktop-style-user-interfaces/book "The best way to predict the future is to help create it" On 9/18/2011 5:44 PM, =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Claude_Schn=E9egans wrote: > >> I will need the values > to be available for multiple browsers. I mean, the user might want to open a > new browser using 'CTRL + N', > > This is actually not a new "browser", but a new window in the same browser. > Session variables are available in any window of the same browser. > > There is no need to save variables in a cookie, session is already maintained > through an id in a cookie. > If you need to use the same variables across sessions, you will need to save > them in the database, set a cookie with some user id. With this id, you can > retreive the variables from the database. > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:347513 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
