Sessions seems to be the popular way to go. It's stored at the server, so you don't have to worry about any clients disabling cookie support.
-- William Fong - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: 626.968.6424 x210 | Fax: 626.968.6877 Wireless #: 805.490.7732 | Wireless E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----- Original Message ----- From: "Martin Towell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'WG4- Cook, Janet'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "PHP db list" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "PHP List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2002 4:06 PM Subject: [PHP-DB] RE: [PHP] Help needed - need to access a value from DB into all pages : I can think of three ways you could do this. : : 1. as a cookie : 2. using sessions : 3. put it in every link : : Martin : : -----Original Message----- : From: WG4- Cook, Janet [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] : Sent: Friday, February 22, 2002 10:59 AM : To: PHP db list; PHP List : Subject: [PHP] Help needed - need to access a value from DB into all : pages : : : Hi there, : : I am struggling with a concept and can't seem to find a way to do it so : hoping you all can help. : : We want to use PHP with MySql Db. : For security reasons on the DB, it is to be accessed only through this front : end i.e. via the internal web : Each user will have a number of levels of access to various parts of the : system, so the obvious design is one where there is only 1 real login to the : MySQL db (i.e. the system will auto log everyone in as this without them : knowing it), and then the user is validated against a table in my DB which : holds the access rights. I can get through the login OK, and get my table to : return "USERID" for this person. Now I need that "USERID" available to ALL : other pages so I can use it to determine what parts of screens to show, and : what to allow them to do. : : My question is how do I make this variable available to all pages?? Do I : have to include it with the variables passed to each page or is there a : simpler way of doing it. Can I put the variable in an include file and : include it in every page - will that work?. : : Surely someone must have had a similar situation before and can tell me how : they solved it. : : Many thanks : : Janet : : : : : -- : PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) : To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php : -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
