[PHP] Session tracking and multiple form updates

2004-07-04 Thread Michael Gale
Hello, I am working on a web site that is available only over HTTPS and am using session tracking. So far I am only saving the person's display name (different then login), site role and e-mail address in the $_SESSION data. The rest of the site is dynamic, now the question is on three

Re: [PHP] Session tracking and multiple form updates

2004-07-04 Thread Tom Rogers
Hi, Monday, July 5, 2004, 1:27:12 PM, you wrote: MG Hello, MG I am working on a web site that is available only over HTTPS and am MG using session tracking. MG So far I am only saving the person's display name (different then MG login), site role and e-mail address in the $_SESSION data.

Re: [PHP] Session tracking and multiple form updates

2004-07-04 Thread John W. Holmes
Michael Gale wrote: Now at the moment on each page is a hidden variable containing a db primary key for which the data is getting updated. I know that hidden values are not a good idea since the user can change them ... so I was going to store the hidden value in a $_SESSION variable but then the

Re: [PHP] Session tracking and multiple form updates

2004-07-04 Thread John W. Holmes
Tom Rogers wrote: store it in the session like: $_SESSION[session_id()]['dbkey'] = $dbkey; then get it back with $dbkey = (isset($_SESSION[session_id()]['dbkey']))? $_SESSION[session_id()]['dbkey'] : 0; That doesn't negate the problem of people having more than one window open and editing records

Re: [PHP] Session tracking and multiple form updates

2004-07-04 Thread Michael Gale
Hello, Thanks for the replies ... I valid all the data and input from the user. So if the user changes the value nothing bad will happen: I have in the code: if ($var != $hiddenvar) { e-mail blank saying Blank has been updated } That is it ... I made a mistake in my last e-mail ..