At 8:42 AM -0400 5/9/06, blackwater dev wrote:
I have a realty site where people want to be able to save properties but don't want to enter a username/password, etc. My first thought is just to save the info to a cookie but am not sure if this is the best way. If cookies aren't allowed, they will loose this functionality. I had thought about grabbing their ip and just writing it to the db but the ip isn't necessarily static. Is there a better way to do this? Thanks!
You don't have to ask them for anything nor permission to do anything. What you provide is public and what they provide via their visit is public. That's not to say that anything they enter should be made public, but it is to say that by a user visiting your site, does provide you with non-specific information that they share with every site they visit. So, in that manner the web works both ways in sharing information.
I use cookies all the time and if a use wants to have functionality with one of my sites, then cookies should be turned on, if not, then they deal with my sites not remembering them. I don't ever ask, or tell, the user to do anything -- I simply provide opportunity.
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