I'd vote for letting PHP do the session management. That way all of that load is on the server (which is made for handling it). Then you can, at any time, reference a session with AJAX.
It's what I do on my cookbook site. <!----------------//------ andy matthews web developer certified advanced coldfusion programmer ICGLink, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 615.370.1530 x737 --------------//---------> -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Stephen Woodbridge Sent: Tuesday, December 19, 2006 3:16 PM To: jQuery Discussion. Subject: Re: [jQuery] jquery session handling versus PHP Kim Johnson wrote: > Currently I use PHP's built in session functions to > handle ensuring users are logged in, etc. It doesn't > work correctly a small percentage of the time, but is > robust as far as being able to use the $_SESSION array > and other such things. Now that I'm starting to use a > bunch of jquery stuff, I'm interested in knowing if > there's anything comparable. I haaaaate > troubleshooting why sessions aren't working so I'd > like something more reliable. > > I noticed there's a cookie plugin for jquery but it > seems to just do basic things. Is there anything > comparable to PHP's system in jquery, or should I just > stick with PHP? Sessions are in large part because HTTP applications used to be stateless and it was the only way to write an application that had flow. In that world the application lived on the server and the browser was just a presentation window. With Javascript and AJAX the application can move into the browser so all the state information is maintained there and then it can request services via AJAX from the server. Services might be: Authentication Service Information requests Data storage requests etc Your data storage services might store application data, application state data, etc. In many ways this is what might have been stored in a persistent session. You could use php servlets to implement the services. Similar ideas, but different way of decomposing the application into components. Smaller modular components foster reuse. -Steve _______________________________________________ jQuery mailing list discuss@jquery.com http://jquery.com/discuss/ _______________________________________________ jQuery mailing list discuss@jquery.com http://jquery.com/discuss/
