Guys, admittedly, its been a couple of weeks since I cruised by, but I swear that, last time I was here, there was a whole topic on tutorials and other peer-reviewed 'standard' techniques! Was I just delusional then (not unknown to happen) or simply inept now?

I've spent the better part of today preparing a fully-functional (i.e., complete, stand-alone) submission demonstrating how to dynamically create/maintain a MySQL-based, per-guest-session URL 'return' stack. With this facility, the SERVER side can empower a page-based "Back" button (or the like) with the ability to replicate the 'best' functionality of the BROWSER's "Back" arrow. While this may not seem especially useful, it allows the server to [selectively] preserve the state history of the session, thereby overcoming the inherently 'stateless' nature of the net. In my main working site, I use it to detect/squash circular reference loops and simple page 'refreshes', thereby making my server-side return stack considerably more effective than the browser-side stack. Now that I have it, what do I do with it? (Be nice.)

    Wp: nope. If you don't know, I guess I really must have been delusional (again! - dang!). But I have such vivid memories of seeing such a topic at the FORUM level ... and of actually reviewing a couple of the threads ... and of seeing some pretty good code ... and a relatively-scholarly discussion of coding standards ... and other quality stuff! I've checked the competition, but, as in the past, I was turned off quickly by the commercialization frills -- doubt that I would ever have stayed around long enough to have drilled down to this level. Well, in any event, take this as a kindly suggestion: this would be an ideal forum-level topic for masters to share best practices with, primarily, journeymen, but, also, newbies ... and, of course, to hone their own skills in encapsulating illustrative examples without compromising aspects of their work that they perceive as being proprietary.

      bradgrafelman wrote:

      such a catch-all thread,

      The Collected Solutions can be the root of that thread (er, rope?); the bit that needs copious free time is the top post that summarises and links to the rest.

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