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Today's Topics:

   1. Re: New Plugin Wish (Tony Bibbs)

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Message: 1
Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2003 12:33:38 -0600
From: Tony Bibbs <tony at tonybibbs.com>
To: geeklog-devel at lists.geeklog.net
Subject: Re: [geeklog-devel] New Plugin Wish
Reply-To: geeklog-devel at lists.geeklog.net

Both windows would share the same session.


Tom Willett wrote:

>>You are right, our custom PHP session handler will allow plugins to pass 

>>data around.

>>

>>If you want to have a value (or object) just add it to the $_SESSION 

>>superglobal:

>>

>>$user = &AEService::Authenticate($userName, $password);

>>$_SESSION['user'] = $user;

>>

>>Then on subsequent page requests you would have access to the user 

>>object in the session.  Please note if you put objects in session the 

>>class definition needs to be included before you bring it out of the 

>>session.  Also, for GL2 we will need to set some ground rules on what 

>>can go in the session.  Sessions sizes should be measured in KB not MB.

>>

>>Hope that helps,

>>

>>--Tony

>>

> 

> Perfect, just what I was thinking of, that should make things easier and 

> cleaner.  This would allow a user (even anonymous) to set options that would 

> only be valid for their current session and allow the plugin to maintain 

> state even when control is passed elsewhere.

> 

> And I will agree that we need to keep sessions small -- we also should have 

> some guidelines about variable naming in sessions.  We don't want multiple 

> plugins stuffing things in the same variable like 'user'.

> 

> A question about your session handler.  If I have a session open and follow 

> a link with shift-click do both windows share the have the same session?  (I 

> ran into this issue with an webmail program.)

> 

> TomW

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|Tony Bibbs         |[R]egardless of what you may think of our penal   |

|tony at tonybibbs.com |system, the fact is that every man in jail is one |

|                   |less potential fisherman to clutter up your       |

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