On 9 Nov 2008, at 18:05, Micah Gersten wrote:
Stut wrote:
On 9 Nov 2008, at 07:16, Robert Cummings wrote:
On Sat, 2008-11-08 at 20:26 -0800, bruce wrote:
I've got a question/issue that I want to bounce off the list.
I have a list that extends over multiple pages. there might be 200
items,
and i don't want to have the items listed on the same page as it
would be
too long. i can break the list up, so i can have it be displayed
over
multiple pages. however, i want the user to select different items
from the
list. given that the selected items might be over different pages,
what's
the best way of keeping a running track of the items that have been
selected??
I could have each page be a form, and do a post/get where i then
keep track
of the selected items from page to page, but that would appear to
get ugly.
i'm looking for pointers to other sites/code that might have
already
implemented this kind of scenario.
thoughts/pointers would be appreciated...
Accumulate them in the session. When done, and before final action
you
could let them view a summary of selected items and allow deletion
of
any entries they don't want.
Unless they're likely to select hundreds of items I'd either go
with a
persisted GET var or a cookie. No need to drag server-side storage
into this.
Server side storage is meant to be used. The session was one of the
greatest things that PHP has given to the web programming world. It
should not be feared. Also, why clutter up someone's machine with
stuff
held in a cookie?
1. PHP certainly did not give sessions to the "web programming world".
2. Why clutter up your server architecture with sessions unless you're
already using them reasonable purposes. What we're talking about here
is a list of numbers, which I'm perhaps incorrectly assuming will be
fairly short and extremely temporary?
IMHO sessions are overused in all web development, not just PHP. In
most cases they're a wrecking ball when a tiny hammer will do. But
it's your choice, wreck away!
-Stut
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