The problem with just making it persistent is that you now have to handle the case where the user gets to the edit page via a path other than the intended one (probably clicking on an article title or something).
Normally, you could just check to whether the article or id was null or empty in the validate method, then redirect to an appropriate page. Now you can't do that. During a particular session the article or id will never be null once the page is correctly accessed once. This may not be desired. Imagine the user uses your edit page to edit an article then visits several other pages. If he then uses the drop-down menu for the back button to get back to the edit page he'll see the edit page for whatever article he last edited. Just a thought, -Mike --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
