Nick, thanks for taking a moment to respond -- >> What I'm wondering is, what should I store in session variables? > > Whatever you need to.
Thanks. >> for the user, to influence the way the site behaves. But I was >> thinking >> of adding ten pre-set style sheets (diff't colors, fonts, etc), and the >> user can choose one of them and store it in "users.stylesheet" or > > Or you could let them design their own styles and colors and save the > choices in a cookie which is what most other sites do (or variations on > the theme) I see. This is basically what I was asking in the first place -- in the face of sessions, I had completely forgotten that cookies could be used for the same purpose and save the server the load, and even do so over the long term. >> But then this could be taken farther -- where do you draw the line with >> user preferences that are pulled out of the database each time they are >> needed, or user preferences that are stored in a session to save >> database activity? > > What kind of site is this? Is all this prettifying *really* needed? A good point (it's not needed), but completely irrelevant to my question. I'm not asking for an answer about this one particular site per se, but rather so that I get a better sense of what other developers do when faced with the decision of storing a variable as a session variable or running database queries. "The big picture", rather than this particular issue, if you will. >> Note that this setup is being run on Pentium II, 256MB RAM with approx >> 50 users total (only ten or so would ever be accessing the thing >> simultaneously, I imagine). It's not a public web site. > > Your joking? > No offence intended (don't you hate it when people say that?) but what > on earth are you worried about 'performance issues' for. > > 10 users at a time? > > Sheeesh..... :=) I must have forgotten to mention that I've never done this before, so forgive my over-cautiousness. But I'll take them as encouraging words -- now I don't need to worry quite so much about server load! Thanks Nick Erik -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
