[FX.php List] Obscuring the recid on URL links

[Gjermund Gusland Thorsen]

Please do not defend your solutions, I'm not nitpicky, I'm just trying
to understand _WHY_ you do it the way you do it.

And the option to garbling the recid, I believe, is to have a login
system with an if statement to check which login is allowed to see
which recid.

ggt667


On 8/28/06, Jonathan Schwartz <jonathan at eschwartz.com> wrote:
> No, it's probably me that is dense. ;-)
>
> In my case, I do  use session variables. However, setting a session
> variable with the recid when a user selects a single record from a
> list of records... while keeping the recid invisible (in the URL and
> Source code)... is not in my bag of tricks yet.
>
> Once again, the application here is in selecting a single record from
> a list of records.
>
> Would love to hear a better method.
>
> Jonathan
>
> At 8:17 AM -0500 8/28/06, Tom Sepper wrote:
> >Maybe I'm being dense here, but why is it imperative that the recid be
> >in the URL?
> >
> >In my solution that I'm currently developing, I've simply put the recid
> >in a session variable and use the session id in the URL. I'm then just
> >simply validating recids before accessing or modifying data.
> >
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