"It depends." It could be no big deal, but it definitely sounds like there is a significant risk of "oops! there goes the server!". As a general rule, you are correct: keep the session as lean as possible. More specifically, don't use it unless there is a damn good reason to do so.
Maybe it's time to have a "best practices" or "our standards are:" type of conversation. HTH On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 10:01 AM, Robert Harrison < rob...@austin-williams.com> wrote: > > I'm an old school programmer who watches every bit and byte and really > practices resource management in my coding practices. > > I've got a new programmer working for me (on contract) and I'm finding > he's using session Vars all over the place. He creating session Vars on > forms that have a hundred fields, he putting arrays into session Vars, etc. > I just went through a few of the programs he wrote and used them, then I > dumped my session vars and found I had over 250 session vars from just > using a few programs. Considering the site has over 1,000 users on it at > any given moment, I'm very concerned about this practice. > > Am I nuts, or is this just bad? > > Thanks, > Robert > > Robert B. Harrison > Director of Interactive Services > Austin & Williams > 125 Kennedy Drive, Suite 100 > Hauppauge NY 11788 > P : 631.231.6600 Ext. 119 > F : 631.434.7022 > http://www.austin-williams.com > > Great advertising can't be either/or. It must be &. > > Plug in to our blog: A&W Unplugged > http://www.austin-williams.com/unplugged > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:349681 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
