Ok, as a simple example currently one of my screens might select a customer and store this id in session. Another screen might show a summary of the currently selected customer and a form for associating an order with that customer.
This is a simple example, (I actually have screens showing many database entities in different contexts). Up until now it has been very convenient to stick the current entity id in session and forget about it, not having to worry about chaining forms and actions together makes it much easier to focus on designing and supporting multiple page flows. However it all breaks the moment a user has more than one page open: If while that second screen is open a new customer is selected in another window the action will pick up the new id from session but when the user submits the form he/she will see the old customer and naturally assume that is who they are submitting the order against. So I guess I'm being greedy and looking for a way to get the best of both worlds. (A session-like container for me to stick my current ids AND seperate states for each window. Any ideas? Thanks On Oct 16, 9:43 am, Gareth McCumskey <gmccums...@gmail.com> wrote: > Perhaps a better description of what you're after, some kind of use case > perhaps, might better help people to answer the question? > > On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 10:04 AM, Mark Smith < > > > > marksmith5...@jungle-monkey.com> wrote: > > > Session is no good, as if the user has multiple windows open they > > could unintentionally interact with eachother. > > > I know hidden html inputs are usually the way this is done, but was > > hoping symfony had something that takes care of serialising and > > reposting these on each page load? > > > On Oct 16, 7:20 am, Gareth McCumskey <gmccums...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > http is a stateless protocol so no language can manage states. We fake > > > states by using session variables, cookies, etc. Symfony has loads of > > > session/cookie management features. > > > > On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 4:48 PM, Mark Smith < > > marksmith5...@jungle-monkey.com > > > > > wrote: > > > > > Does symfony provide any mechanisms for managing page state? > > > > > Thanks > > > > -- > > > Gareth McCumskeyhttp://garethmccumskey.blogspot.com > > > twitter: @garethmcc > > -- > Gareth McCumskeyhttp://garethmccumskey.blogspot.com > twitter: @garethmcc --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "symfony users" group. To post to this group, send email to symfony-users@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to symfony-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/symfony-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
