session-variables

What's the best way to authenticate and track user authentication state from page to page? Some say session state, some say cookies? Could I just use a session variable that has the ID of the user and upon authentication, instatiate a custom User class that has the User's information. Then, on every page, verify the session variable is still active and access basic user data from the User object? Any thoughts? Any good examples? There's no perfect way to do it. If you store it in a cookie you'll take flak that cookies can be stolen. If you store it in the session you'll take flak because

Really quick and simple question but I can't find a decent answer to this - What is the best way to pass data from a controller to a block in Magento. Incase it makes a difference, I am loading the layout as follows: $this->loadLayout(array('default', 'myModule_default')); $this->_initLayoutMessages('customer/session') ->_initLayoutMessages('catalog/session') ->renderLayout(); I should add, that I have been using the registry as follows: In the controller: Mage::register('data', $data); In the block: $data = Mage::registry('data'); Not sure if this is the best way to do it though. You don't.

Session variables are apparently not working for me. I don't know what I'm doing wrong. This is the code that I'm using to check for a valid password: if ($input_password_hash == $password_hash) { session_start(); $_SESSION['is_user'] = 1; header("Location: ../new_look"); //or Location: index.php } else echo "Wrong password."; in the index.php file (where it redirects to), I have this code: if ($_SESSION['is_user'] == 1) { //show index page with navigation bar for registered user } else { //do something else } but it's not working at all. The session does apparently start and that can be

So far I've been using Session to pass some variables from one page to another. For instance user role. When a user logs in to the web application the role id of the user is kept in Session and that role is checked at different parts of the application. I've recently started thinking why not use static members instead. I can store the same information in a static field and easily access it anywhere in my application (well anywhere the namespace in which that static field resides is included.) I know that using Session variables comes handy sometimes, such that: Any kind of data can be stored

I need to set a PHP $_SESSION variable using the jQuery. IF the user clicks on an image I want to save a piece of information associated with that image as a session variable in php. I think I can do this by calling a php page or function and appending that piece of info to the query string. Any ideas. I have found little help through google. thanks mike You can't do it through jQuery alone; you'll need a combination of Ajax (which you can do with jQuery) and a PHP back-end. A very simple version might look like this: HTML: <img class="foo" src="img.jpg" /> <img class="foo" src="img2.jpg" />