Sep 7th, 2009, 9:29 AM
Heya,
Excellent! From what you described, it didn't sound like PHP sessions were working properly. Sessions (in one form other) are a tool used by most scripts out there - they let you store information about a user for the duration of the session. PHP has it's own session management functionality, built into the language - but the support for it is a little patchy. So, I added (well, actually ActiveState did... they supplied the mod!) an alternate version that stores session information in the database.
When you added that setting it just told Form Tools to store user information in the database instead of PHP sessions.
However, do note that you'll have problems using the API with your forms. Right now, the API relies exclusively on PHP sessions. Some chap in the forums posted their mod that allowed it to use database sessions - I'll update the API soon (maybe today, while I remember...).
Sorry... long answer to a short question!
- Ben
Excellent! From what you described, it didn't sound like PHP sessions were working properly. Sessions (in one form other) are a tool used by most scripts out there - they let you store information about a user for the duration of the session. PHP has it's own session management functionality, built into the language - but the support for it is a little patchy. So, I added (well, actually ActiveState did... they supplied the mod!) an alternate version that stores session information in the database.
When you added that setting it just told Form Tools to store user information in the database instead of PHP sessions.
However, do note that you'll have problems using the API with your forms. Right now, the API relies exclusively on PHP sessions. Some chap in the forums posted their mod that allowed it to use database sessions - I'll update the API soon (maybe today, while I remember...).
Sorry... long answer to a short question!
- Ben