It really depends on what you want to do. Cookies are client-side information and thus you can run into issues where clients don't allow cookies, have cookie-blocking apps or have outdated software that doesn't support them (though the latter continues to become less of an option as time passes).
Sessions are server-side information that allows you a lot more control of the information and allows better manipulation of it. PHP has really nice session management and makes using them quite painless. The only downside really is that it adds more load to your servers. If you have a machine that's not under insane load all the time, you might want to give sessions a try. Once everything's configged properly (which shouldn't be hard at all - and it might even be turned on already!), to get a user to log in, all you'll need to do is perform the DB password authentication and then pass the session information from script to script. Good luck. -Mike -----Original Message----- From: Awlad Hussain [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, March 21, 2003 11:00 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [PHP] Cookie or Session?? Managing user login Whats the best option to use.. cookie?? or session?? Currently i am using cookies and sometime user complain they can't login, what would you suggest? -awlad -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
