Good Afternoon,
We currently have a dashboard written in Classic ASP, it basically returns on the front page titles e.g.
Open Orders - 55 Closed Orders - 66 Won Orders - 77
each title navigates to another page with a table of further information e.g.
Order No | Part Required | Qty | Value 000001 ... 000056 ...
Currently we have 3 copy's of this dashboard, each one connects to a different database e.g. db1.company.com, db2.company.com, db3.company.com, so when you for example add an extra page to db1.company.com you have to make the change on db2.company.com and db3.company.com
I am looking into re writing these into one PHP site, now I'm learning as I go along here so let me know if I've missed anything or can provide some more information...
What I would like to do is have:
One Site e.g. dashboard.company.com
3 buttons on first page e.g. db1, db2, db3.
Each button would then create a variable that can be used across the site to determine which database connector to use e.g.
if variable = 1 $dbname = db1
As far as I understand there is two ways to achieve this.
Cookies
Session variables
Which is the best method / is there a better method?
Thanks,
Mike
A cookie is a bit of data stored by the browser and sent to the server with every request.
A session is a collection of data stored on the server and associated with a given user
(usually via a cookie containing an id code)
There isn't particularly a better/best method per say, I recommend you do some research on both Cookies and Sessions, as they effectively achieve the same thing, in your case, use the link below for some guidance.
When should I use session variables instead of cookies?
Credits @Daniel Vassallo
I personally prefer the use of Sessions, as I would have to say they are "simpler" to use, just assign and go, but again this is just my personal preference.