Re: [PHP] Cookies - good or bad???

2002-07-21 Thread Chris Earle
Can't you say that about anything? Scott Fletcher [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... I don't use cookies either due to the fact that some web browser block the cookies and some web browser's bug that affected the cookie. For example, if Internet

Re: [PHP] Cookies - good or bad???

2002-07-19 Thread Philippe Saladin
If you want 100% accessability, forget cookies were ever invented :) While you're erasing stuff from your brain, throw out javascript too :D Some people don't have a fast access to internet. Very simple javascript to validate a form before submitting it can be IMHO still useful. But I agree

[PHP] Cookies - good or bad???

2002-07-18 Thread PHPCoder
I'm really battling with this whole session thing. My first impressions are that cookies are OK, and really helps to make sessions workable and efficient, YET, from a developers point of view, I always play devils advocate, and I'm wondering about those stubbourne individuals out there who

Re: [PHP] Cookies - good or bad???

2002-07-18 Thread Analysis Solutions
On Thu, Jul 18, 2002 at 03:38:51PM +0200, PHPCoder wrote: What are the general feeling out there amongst developers about the use of cookies? Cookies rely on client side. I never rely on the client for anything. When it comes to examples of how to do things The Right Way, I say go take a

Re: [PHP] Cookies - good or bad???

2002-07-18 Thread Scott Fletcher
I don't use cookies either due to the fact that some web browser block the cookies and some web browser's bug that affected the cookie. For example, if Internet Explorer have a bug with the cookie then it is gurantee that you'll never find MS to have this bug fix in a few days. It could take 6

Re: [PHP] Cookies - good or bad???

2002-07-18 Thread Justin French
on 18/07/02 11:38 PM, PHPCoder ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: What are the general feeling out there amongst developers about the use of cookies? If you want to assure that you maintain session across the whole site, appealing to the lowest common denominator, then hard code the SID to all

Re: [PHP] Cookies - good or bad???

2002-07-18 Thread Alberto Serra
ðÒÉ×ÅÔ! PHPCoder wrote: application useless unless I code a plan B into my code; meaning I can just as well NOT use cookies from the start... catch 22 dejavu... What are the general feeling out there amongst developers about the use of cookies? --snip-- I gather that the alternative

Re: [PHP] Cookies - good or bad???

2002-07-18 Thread Analysis Solutions
On Thu, Jul 18, 2002 at 08:47:45PM +0300, Alberto Serra wrote: It's a customer's choice, obviously. Most customers do not give a damn about minorities (and so do not want to increase budgets to develop an alternate solution that will address a minor community). What increased cost? If

Re: [PHP] Cookies - good or bad???

2002-07-18 Thread Alberto Serra
ðÒÉ×ÅÔ! Analysis Solutions wrote: What increased cost? If someone does the right thing in the first place, there's no cost. The developers are either gettting paid to develop something that works right in the first place or they're getting paid to develop something that doesn't. LOL, we

Re: [PHP] Cookies - good or bad???

2002-07-18 Thread Justin French
on 19/07/02 3:47 AM, Alberto Serra ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: We use but one cookie, for returning user recognition. That is, the sort of info your soft can survive without. As for passing values on the GET channel to iframes, we do it all the time and have never seen a single problem.