object persistence in php

Question

I am fairly new to web programming, I have mainly used java to create desktop applications in the past.

I\'m trying to figure out how to create persistent objects in

Answer 1

Data persistence in Web programming is done thru the use of cookies/sessions and passing cookie/session variables across Web page calls. Theoretically, any kind of data can be stored in these variables - but for most practical purposes, only the more important data (look at them more like tokens) needed to identify/reconstruct the needed objects (with or without a database) are transferred to and from server and browser.