Using the IP can fail if more than one user is on the same IP via a router using NAT. The Browser local storage is a better solution.
Ralph DiMola IT Director Evergreen Information Services rdim...@evergreeninfo.net -----Original Message----- From: use-livecode [mailto:use-livecode-boun...@lists.runrev.com] On Behalf Of Tim Selander via use-livecode Sent: Friday, August 12, 2022 9:18 AM To: use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Cc: Tim Selander Subject: Re: Server globals Hi Matthias, It is user specific, but I just tried the saving to a text file on the server -- very fast. Got the user IP from $_Server, and used that in the filename for easy later retrieval. How much data can a cookie hold? Guess I'll test that. One of the reasons I'm fussing with this is I'm trying to come up with some kind of pagination system. I'm probably trying to re-invent the wheel -- badly. It's a simple membership list, with a few hundred records. Only want to show 30 on the page at a time. I wonder if anyone has a LC sample for doing that. I tried Ralph Bitter's Revigniter but just can't wrap my head around it. Using MySQL for testing, so could try to figure out using the CURSOR feature. But know nothing about avoiding injection attacks, so may fall back to using a .csv for the datafile. I've done that for all my other projects.... Anyway, thanks for the info; no global variables, but file saves look like they'll work! Tim On 2022.08.12 21:26, matthias rebbe via use-livecode wrote: > Hi Tim, > > does the variable have a user specific value or a value, that changes from time to time, but is the same for all users? > > I've done something some time ago and used a text file on the server which stored that value. In my case the value was not user specific so it was an easy task. > > > If the variable is user specific, why don't you use a cookies for that? That will grant that the value is available at all pages in the same domain. > > Regards, > Matthias > > >> Am 12.08.2022 um 13:27 schrieb Tim Selander via use-livecode <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com>: >> >> As always, appreciate everyone's help. >> >> Have made several little projects using LC Server on the on-rev.com host. For the first time, I would like a global variable -- that is a variable that would retain it's value even if the page is re-loaded. Or if a user goes to another .lc page/file in the domain. >> >> All my playing around, and Googling around, has been for nought. Is there a way to hang on to a bit of data was you move around pages in the same domain? >> >> Thanks. >> >> Tim Selander >> Tokyo, Japan >> >> _______________________________________________ >> use-livecode mailing list >> use-livecode@lists.runrev.com >> Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: >> http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode > > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode > _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
