Re: PHP Tracking of Variables (was) Per User Password Administration

[Shafir]

Could this be solved by using semaphore and shared-memory functions?
I guess this would be the purpose of these functions. 

Does anyone have any examples on how these functions would be used 
as a session management or as a fast memory method (instead of
accessing database on every request)

I may not be talking sense here.

At 02:47 PM 5/16/99 -0600, Sasha Pachev wrote:
>Van wrote:
>> 
>> Well, I've gotten through the authentication mechanics, and, although
>> Monty and several others posted some simple but usefull techniques to
>> create user authentication for a Web-Enabled time sheet application, I
>> decided to create a separate database and table for the users, for
>> several reasons.  Most important was to keep the mysql user tables out
>> of harms way.
>> Problem I'm having is variables getting set but, not staying alive after
>> authentication is successful.  This may be a little off topic, but, if
>> anyone knows a way to keep user-defined variables alive while going from
>> page to page, I could sure use a tip.  If anyone's interested, I could
>> send source code for the authentication scheme.
>> Regards,
>> Van
>> --
>
>Does PHP have support for cookies? If not, or do you not want cookie
>warnings to be seen by the cookie-paranoid just use a hidden input in
>the form. If you want to be really "bullet-proof" (well, nothing is
>really bullet-proof) secure, you should not trust the value of the
>cookie/hidden input but always authenticate it againt some
>authentication schema. 
>
>-- 
>Sasha Pachev
>http://www.sashanet.com
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