Set your session time out to, oh, 2 years or less (as in the spec, they are gonna ignore you if you try more than 2 years). You could even set *ONE* cookie with all the values serialized in an array, and probably stay under the 4K limit. Then you get people like me who, if a cookie value looks TOO funky, I'll reject it, on the assumption that you are exposing my personal info to your advertising sites for user-tracking. Buh-bye. Try to think about your cookies from the perspective of a paranoid media-believing moron. Like that movie with Mel Gibson, sort of... Because SOME of your visitors are that weird, self included. :-) You can store a Cookie to ID me with something I know is "me", and then you know who I am for the next 2 years. That should be good enough. Read the PHP session pages, and the setcookie page, and work out what's best for you, with the paranoid user visitor mentality above. On Thu, August 17, 2006 9:20 am, dpgirago@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > > On Wed, August 16, 2006 9:00 am, dpgirago@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: >> Does IE6 limit somehow/somewhere the number of cookie variables I >> can >> create and store? > > Richard Lynch responded: >> Yes. >> >> Read the Cookie spec. >> >> There's no need for any site to ever send more than ONE Cookie >> anyway. >> >> Just use session_start() and you can store all the stuff in >> $_SESSION >> and it's all tied to the one Cookie. >> >> Users like me who set the browser to prompt for Cookies will often >> LEAVE a site that is being stupid and sending too many cookies, >> unless >> we really really really need your content, which is unlikely. > > So you're calling my app "stupid", Richard?? <lol> > > To clarify, the app is for a small group of known users on an > intranet, and > yes, they really really need the content. There are 24 check boxes, > and > each selection triggers a graphical display of radiation levels in a > specific area over the last hour. Since the active areas - 12 to 15 > usually > - don't change all that much over time, I thought it would make sense > to > have the app "remember" which boxes had been checked at last launch. I > didn't like the idea of using cookies, so I actually have a database > solution in place. But I've not dealt much with cookies, and I had > some > time and tried to use them to solve the problem. That's when I ran > into the > 20 cookie limit with IE (Having just read the spec, I'm surprised that > Microsoft has actually followed it). > > Unless there's something basic about $_SESSION variables I've missed, > I > don't believe they would work here. I need to track and remember which > boxes are checked between sessions, not within a single session. > Someone > please correct me if I'm mistaken. > > Thanks again to Adam Zey for suggesting I serialize the cookie data. > That > solved the problem. > > David > > > -- Like Music? http://l-i-e.com/artists.htm -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
