Cookies questions! NOVICE!

[apm]

1) I have read the session mangement issue and the links in the post. I am still wondering if the cookiemethod is worth it? Since there will be some level of personalization involved. I have two option:
a) Register every visitor with id and pwd. and ask him to logon every time he gets in.
b) Use cookies

What should be used?

2) Lets say I use cookies. how will the cookies be used to track visitors and manage seesions. I ned a blow by blow account. Or if you could poinbt me to a page which has cookies with databases. It would be very helpfu. Since i am very confused as to the mechanics of how the cookie will help me manage user session. I am speacily interested in cookies and how will they interact with the database. I know i am sounding really vague right now. I hope I can gte specific after a few days of researching.

I have few more question on cookies. So I am going to wait for your replys before i go ahead and post them. Thanks in advance.

Reagds
Apoorva

[dean]

Not a specific answer to your question, but if you want to see cookies in use with php/mysql you could check out Phorum. Phorum is a message board that uses cookies to let veiwers know when there is a new message. You could peek through their code and see cookies in action. - A vague answer but you could see an active example (besides Phorum is pretty easy to set up)

http://www.phorum.org/


Dean

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[Rich]

re: excellent use of cookies and databases:

www.amazon.com (http://www.amazon.com)

Rich