Re: Apache::Session and user sessions

2002-12-09 Thread Perrin Harkins
md wrote: My question is with regards to whether I need or should put the submitted data into the session as the user navigates the forms (to create an account). The user will be taken through three forms to create an account. So for instance, form one will ask the user to create a username,

Re: Apache::Session and user sessions

2002-12-09 Thread Rafiq Ismail (ADMIN)
On Mon, 9 Dec 2002, Perrin Harkins wrote: md wrote: My question is with regards to whether I need or should put the submitted data into the session as the user navigates the forms (to create an account). The user will be taken through three forms to create an account. So for instance,

Re: Apache::Session and user sessions

2002-12-09 Thread Perrin Harkins
Rafiq Ismail (ADMIN) wrote: I'm not sure how often a user will attempt to complete one form through multiple browsers. To be honest I'm not sure that he/she should. There are all kind of forms. An obvious example would be a search. Users often open up multiple windows when browsing a site

Re: Apache::Session and user sessions

2002-12-07 Thread md
--- Perrin Harkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Todd W wrote: I have a table with some basic user information (first name, last name, address, phone number, etc...). That's permanent data, not session data. Session data is transient. I was reading through the archives and came across

Re: Apache::Session and user sessions

2002-09-23 Thread Todd W
It's just a storage mechanism. Typically the procedure is that one a user identified herself with some kind of login process, you put her user ID (a primary key to a database table) into the session, and keep it as a key for accessing that data. I have a table with some basic user

Re: Apache::Session and user sessions

2002-09-22 Thread Perrin Harkins
Todd W wrote: Im looking at Apache::Session and trying to figure out what it does. It provides shared storage of a hash of data, and gives you a unique ID that you can tie to a user. From what I can tell, Apache::Session will only give generic sessions, of which I know nothing about the

Apache::Session and user sessions

2002-09-20 Thread Todd W
Im looking at Apache::Session and trying to figure out what it does. What I want to do is tie sessions to a particular record in a database table. From what I can tell, Apache::Session will only give generic sessions, of which I know nothing about the user untill they give me information