> I have never switched to passing these variables through the url because I > have always had something more critical to do. > > So, the topic for the day and we can carry this to next week is: > > How do you handle cookies/session variables?
That's a pretty broad subject. I normally don't use that many cookie variables. I use cookies just as a method for restoring state/identification of the user so they don't need to log in again, ie some kind of SessionKey. So that if the user comes back, and their Session vars are gone, I check the SessionKey and the Username in the database and if they match I can automatically restore their state (via Session vars). If the sessionkey has expired, and the session vars are still valid then the sessionkey is updated. Otherwise they have to log in again to have access to the extra stuff.
Session vars are more convenient and faster to use. As well they can store more complex data types, unlike cookies. CPU power is cheap. RAM is cheap. Making database queries is not cheap, you take a huge relative performance hit everytime you do that. So if you were only using cookie vars then things you would have to keep retrieving from the database, you'd have to keep doing over and over again if your objects needed the same complex information.
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