IMO, I don't think one is better than the other. I honestly don't think that you can
make a blanket statement that says, "client variables are better than session
variables" or visa versa. I've always believed in letting the situation dictate what
type of variable structure I'm going to use. In a lot of cases, I've used a happy mix
of all of them. Both client and session variables have their good and bad points. For
instance, a company intranet would be fine with session variables and a high traffic,
clustered site might be better off with client variables. Now, I don't buy into the
fact that if you're clustering a site, you shouldn't use session variables. What if
you set up the cluster where when a session starts, that session stays on one box and
one box only. When that box reaches it's threshold, all new sessions go to the next
box in the cluster. In this situation, you don't have to worry about tracking sessions
over multiple boxes and you could therefore summarize that session variables would be
fine. Of course, as long as there is enough memory. But then again, during your
discovery phase, you should have a good idea what kind of traffic you're expecting,
how many session variables (approximately) you'll be using and calculate the session
variables memory cost and then build your box accordingly. I know that sounds great in
theory and probably a lot of people don't do that but it's a good practice.
Just my .02
Mark - with a K :-)
Mark Stewart
Programmer/Analyst
Communication Concepts
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Since there seems to be a few people still up and about, could you put your
thinking cap on for a sec.......
Session versus Client. I've read through just about every post I could find
on the subject throughout CF-Talk. And the consensus is that client is the
way to go.
So....
I am about to convert a site that I have been having long-standing issues
with timing out, etc. Is it really as simple as turning all the
session.whatevers into client.whatevers and making sure clientmanagement is
turned on? (this is a hosted app and by default, they store client vars in a
SQL database).
Thanks for thinking so late....I'm going to bed soon I promise.....
Erika
(with a *K*)
"Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius,
power, and magic in it." - Goethe
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