Re: persistent sign on for Zend Server

[BMay@xxxxxxxxx]

Actually Larry, $_SESSION data is stored on the server.  $_COOKIE data is 
stored on the end user's computer.  a $_SESSION variable is going to be 
your best bet for doing this.  If you are still paranoid about the user 
profile and password being stored temporarily out in your IFS, you could 
always encrypt the data before storing it and then decrypt the data when 
retrieving it. 

In fact, search the archives, I believe Kevin Schroeder posted an example 
of doing just this kind of encryption of $_SESSION variables a while back.

Brian May
Project Lead
Management Information Systems
Garan, Incorporated
Starkville, Mississippi



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Using Zend Server, I would like to present a sign-on screen where the user 

enters a user ID and password to be used as the parms of the i5_connect 
function.  This is not hard, but I want to present that screen only once, 
and use that info as the user moves from screen to screen, all of which 
will require a 15_connection.  I know that I can store the user and 
password entered as $_SESSION variables, but I don;t like the idea of the 
password being written to some place on the PC hard drive.  (That's how 
$_SESSION works, right?).  Any suggestions on how to deal with this.

Larry Kleinman
Kleinman Associates, Inc.
212-949-6469
203-255-4100