Re: [jQuery] jquery session handling versus PHP

2006-12-22 Thread Juha Suni
Brice Burgess wrote: > Juha Suni wrote: >> I've seen programming leakage that resulted in session files of >> several megabytes, causing some minor slowdowns, but still >> functioning 100%. >> > A few megabyte session is a terrible thing -- and better architecture > should be investigated. I rememb

Re: [jQuery] jquery session handling versus PHP

2006-12-20 Thread David Duymelinck
Juha Suni schreef: > David Duymelinck wrote: > >> Putting post data in a session isn't a good choice because cookies and >> sessioncookies have a limited file size. >> > > Ermm... the session data is not stored in the cookie (thank god). Therefore > filesize for regular POST-requests shoul

Re: [jQuery] jquery session handling versus PHP

2006-12-20 Thread Brice Burgess
Juha Suni wrote: > I've seen programming leakage that resulted in session files of several > megabytes, causing some minor slowdowns, but still functioning 100%. > > Sessions are incredibly handy and powerful, if used correctly. I'm not > recommending dumping all your data there, but you shouldn'

Re: [jQuery] jquery session handling versus PHP

2006-12-20 Thread Juha Suni
David Duymelinck wrote: > Putting post data in a session isn't a good choice because cookies and > sessioncookies have a limited file size. Ermm... the session data is not stored in the cookie (thank god). Therefore filesize for regular POST-requests should not be a problem. Storing huge amounts

Re: [jQuery] jquery session handling versus PHP

2006-12-19 Thread David Duymelinck
Kim Johnson schreef: > Thanks to all three of you for the responses :) > > To explain a bit more about the extent of how I use > the sessions, the majority of why I use them is to > restrict access to certain areas. I have varying > levels of permissions on each user account, and do the > usual "ch

Re: [jQuery] jquery session handling versus PHP

2006-12-19 Thread Brice Burgess
Kim Johnson wrote: > Given those exact things, do you three (or anyone > else) have an opinion on which would be better in php > or jquery? The auth, at least, will need to be almost > everywhere. > > thanks, > -kim > Kim, Keep your authentication "state" server side (via PHP's session). If you

Re: [jQuery] jquery session handling versus PHP

2006-12-19 Thread Kim Johnson
Thanks to all three of you for the responses :) To explain a bit more about the extent of how I use the sessions, the majority of why I use them is to restrict access to certain areas. I have varying levels of permissions on each user account, and do the usual "check if they are logged in on each

Re: [jQuery] jquery session handling versus PHP

2006-12-19 Thread Olivier Percebois-Garve
If you auto-fill form fields using php session and want to convert it to a cookie-based storage then its a good choice because you will offload your server. Kim Johnson wrote: > Currently I use PHP's built in session functions to > handle ensuring users are logged in, etc. It doesn't > work corr

Re: [jQuery] jquery session handling versus PHP

2006-12-19 Thread David
Kim Johnson schreef: > 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

Re: [jQuery] jquery session handling versus PHP

2006-12-19 Thread Andy Matthews
lto:[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, e

Re: [jQuery] jquery session handling versus PHP

2006-12-19 Thread Stephen Woodbridge
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 >

[jQuery] jquery session handling versus PHP

2006-12-19 Thread Kim Johnson
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 inte