Cookie limits?

Anon

I know that there is a limit of 20 cookies posted from one domain. Ok now when you store an array as a cookie, does it store it as one cookie or 1 for each array element. The reason I ask is that I am building a songbook building application that stores each song as an array element. It's working great, but when I went to test it I start building the book and I get to 21 elements and whammo all of a sudden I have 1 item not 21. (That's in Netscape, IE allows me to get to 21 but goes back to one on item 22). So do I need to store this as some character separated variable instead, or am I missing something.

Thanks,
Roger

Anon

why not use sessions? it is way better than cookies and instead of writing a cooking every time you load a page you just put the start_session() code and all the variables are initialized. i would recommend sessions for something like this.

Roger Harrell wrote:

I know that there is a limit of 20 cookies posted from one domain. Ok now when you store an array as a cookie, does it store it as one cookie or 1 for each array element. The reason I ask is that I am building a songbook building application that stores each song as an array element. It\\'s working great, but when I went to test it I start building the book and I get to 21 elements and whammo all of a sudden I have 1 item not 21. (That\\'s in Netscape, IE allows me to get to 21 but goes back to one on item 22). So do I need to store this as some character separated variable instead, or am I missing something.

Thanks,
Roger

ccalzaretta

you can store more then 20, or at least I have... I uses an array.. very easy

Anon

That was my point. I am using an array and it's quitting after 20ish. Each time a visitor adds an item it adds another value to the array. Simple 1 dimensional array. But once it gets past a "critical value" it chokes. Possibly an old browser issue? I've only tested on Netscape 4.75 and IE 4.72 because the machine I'm working on right now has em. I'll test on updated browsers tonight.

Also I'll probably try the session idea.

Anon

That was definately the way to go. It made the code and variable handling much simpler. I've used sessions for other purposes before, but didn't think to use em here. Duh. Thanks for the tip. I've modified other similar code because it is soooo much better.