Re: [OT] session state (was Re: Wizard like Screens)

2007-11-29 Thread Gary Affonso
Jeromy, Ted... Thanks for the education. The Blog link Jeromy provided was a good read. And the blog comments (particularly the last one from gregjor) were even more educational. Even after reading a well-written blog titled "The Session is Evil" I'm now feeling better than ever about usin

Re: [OT] session state (was Re: Wizard like Screens)

2007-11-29 Thread Ted Husted
Just to emphasize what Jeromy is saying, the key words are "scalable" and "cluster". In the case of an intranet application with a set user base that won't be clustered, *not* using session could be evil, since the alternatives tend to be more work to implement and maintain. In physics, we have v

[OT] session state (was Re: Wizard like Screens)

2007-11-28 Thread Jeromy Evans
Gary Affonso wrote: Tom Schneider wrote: Both of those plugins, by default, would need the session to keep track of the state. Oh, duh. I didn't see that he wanted to avoid the session. What is up with that BTW? There seem to be quite a few posts lately from people wanting to do stuff and

Re: Wizard like Screens

2007-11-28 Thread Gary Affonso
Tom Schneider wrote: Both of those plugins, by default, would need the session to keep track of the state. Oh, duh. I didn't see that he wanted to avoid the session. What is up with that BTW? There seem to be quite a few posts lately from people wanting to do stuff and avoid the http sessio

Re: Wizard like Screens

2007-11-25 Thread Tom Schneider
Both of those plugins, by default, would need the session to keep track of the state. The webflow plugin can be configured to serialize the state to a hidden field, but there would be a lot of configuration and complication just for 2 fields. I would say your best bet is to have hidden fields th

Re: Wizard like Screens

2007-11-23 Thread Gary Affonso
My suggestion would be to checkout the scope plug-in or WebFlow and the WebFlow plug-in. - Gary Radha Krishna wrote: Hi, I have a wizard like screen where i need to pass the selected values (2 text box) at first page to last page,last page to again first page. Can anyone tell me the b