Yes you do have to watch the upper cookie limits, but for what I'm doing (maintaining a 15 or so field reg form and the contents of a small shopping cart), it works great. You could have 1 cookie for each part of the form. Unless your forms are HUGE, I don't see a problem.
Bryan Stevenson B.Comm. VP & Director of E-Commerce Development Electric Edge Systems Group Inc. t. 250.920.8830 e. [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------- Macromedia Associate Partner www.macromedia.com --------------------------------------------------------- Vancouver Island ColdFusion Users Group Founder & Director www.cfug-vancouverisland.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gyrus" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "CF-Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, November 15, 2002 1:34 PM Subject: Re: cookies / WDDX > > 6) set a cookie with the value of the WDDX packet using CFCOOKIE > > I'm worried about cookie limitations. I'm having to replicate another form, > which seems quite large (well, 22 smallish parts). Also, there's a system > for attaching text reminders to each part, plus info to store on whether > each part is completed or not. > > This is for one form - there'll be at least one more in the near future. How > much can cookies handle?! > > I would plump for a datasource or session/client variables, but you know how > it is, I've not been provided with information as to the set-up on the > destination site (the bit I'm doing is a small part of a large site), and > I'm finding it really difficult to contact any with info! Groan. > > Gyrus > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > work: http://www.tengai.co.uk > play: http://www.norlonto.net > PGP key available > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?method=subscribe&forumid=4 FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq This list and all House of Fusion resources hosted by CFHosting.com. The place for dependable ColdFusion Hosting.
