[FX.php List] RECID anomaly, more info

[Bob Patin]

I think I finally figured out what this web app is doing:

Contrary to how *I* would do this, the original coder would retrieve  
the contactID before loading each and every form. He stored the  
contactID in a session variable, and then before loading each form, he  
put an include in the page that would retrieve the session variable  
and query the database for the proper RECID for this client.

So I assume the sessions are timing out after all...

My question though is this: if the session times out, then the query  
for the user's contactID should fail, and if that happens, the RECID  
doesn't get returned.

If there's no value in the RECID, then why is FMEdit writing to the  
first record in the table?

Bob Patin
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