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[Kenneth Downs]

Cliff Hirsch wrote:
> I have seen some applications that only use url-based session IDs. I
> think the PHP INI has a setting for this. If not, why not just attach
> your own "tab-id" tag to every url.
>   

Well, you know I thought that the URL rewriting was limited to the 
session ID, but I checked the docs and found this little beauty:

http://us3.php.net/output_add_rewrite_var

...so that a tab ID can be generated when blank and we can keep tabs 
separate.  Nice!

> Cliff
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: talk-bounces at lists.nyphp.org [mailto:talk-bounces at lists.nyphp.org]
> On Behalf Of Kenneth Downs
> Sent: Wednesday, January 17, 2007 9:39 AM
> To: NYPHP Talk
> Subject: [nycphp-talk] A tale of 4 scopes
>
> There is a particular feature that I've tried to implement with varying 
> success.  I'm wondering if anybody else has tried.
>
> The idea centers around scope.  In a web app, it seems to me there are 
> three recognized scopes, plus a fourth one nobody talks about much:
>
> 1)  Application/Database scope - data available to all users
> simultaneously
> 2)  Session Scope - data available to one browser instance (with all of 
> its tabs and windows)
>
> 3)  Window/Tab Scope ( The one I'm trying to implement )
>
> 4) Request Scope, the GET/POST parameters of a single request.
>
>
> We're interested in a solution for #3, the ability to distinguish 
> between the various windows or tabs that a user has open.
>
> I have a partial solution but I don't like it because it is fragile 
> (besides being partial).  In this solution, you send a hidden variable 
> to the browser that contains the "state" for that window.  Among the 
> many problems of this approach is that every link must be a FORM 
> submission so that the variable goes back to the server.  It does work 
> very well for us in one very particular situation, but it is hardly a 
> general solution.
>
> The difficulty stems from the fact that there is no "window cookie" or 
> "tab cookie", at least not as far as I know.  If there were, that would 
> solve the whole problem.  I've thought of trying to trick PHP's system 
> of writing a cookie into the URL, but since it is not meant to do that 
> it would probably keeping wanting to do the wrong thing. 
>
> Anybody else tried this?
>
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