Creating a watchlist

[deepweb]

Hi there,

Does anyone know of a watchlist function or tutorial on how it might
be achieved

I want people to add database records to a watchlist for the duration
of their visit to a site.

Not sure if it might be cookie or session driven

Thanks in advance

Steven

[Shelly]

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Hi there,

Does anyone know of a watchlist function or tutorial on how it might
be achieved

I want people to add database records to a watchlist for the duration
of their visit to a site.

Not sure if it might be cookie or session driven

Thanks in advance

Steven

Can you explain yourself a little futher please? What is it that you want
added to a database? That they looked at the site? Their ip address? If
they log in, then who they are? One time when they click on or every
minute?

What is it you are trying to do?

Shelly

[Jerry Stuckle]

deepweb wrote:

Hi there,

Does anyone know of a watchlist function or tutorial on how it might
be achieved

I want people to add database records to a watchlist for the duration
of their visit to a site.

Not sure if it might be cookie or session driven

Thanks in advance

Steven

Impossible, because you cannot know the "duration of the visit to a site".

The ONLY thing you can know is when they made their last request to your site.
Anything else is a pure guess.

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[deepweb]

On Sep 24, 11:20 pm, Jerry Stuckle <[e-mail]:

deepweb wrote:

Hi there,

Does anyone know of a watchlist function or tutorial on how it might
be achieved

I want people to add database records to a watchlist for the duration
of their visit to a site.

Not sure if it might be cookie or session driven

Thanks in advance

Steven

Impossible, because you cannot know the "duration of the visit to a site".

The ONLY thing you can know is when they made their last request to your site.
Anything else is a pure guess.

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Hi there,

Thanks for that, I must not have asked the question right, as there
are lots of site where you can click a button or link to add the
current page/record/article to "your watchlist" ie a list of items you
are interested enough in to tag as important.

I have a list of activities and accommodation that I want people to be
able to tag and then present them with a list they can print or email.

Does that explain it a bit better

Cheers

Steven

[Jerry Stuckle]

deepweb wrote:

On Sep 24, 11:20 pm, Jerry Stuckle <[e-mail]:

>deepweb wrote:

>>Hi there,
Does anyone know of a watchlist function or tutorial on how it might
be achieved
I want people to add database records to a watchlist for the duration
of their visit to a site.
Not sure if it might be cookie or session driven
Thanks in advance
Steven

Impossible, because you cannot know the "duration of the visit to a site".

The ONLY thing you can know is when they made their last request to your site.
Anything else is a pure guess.

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Jerry Stuckle
JDS Computer Training Corp.
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Hi there,

Thanks for that, I must not have asked the question right, as there
are lots of site where you can click a button or link to add the
current page/record/article to "your watchlist" ie a list of items you
are interested enough in to tag as important.

I have a list of activities and accommodation that I want people to be
able to tag and then present them with a list they can print or email.

Does that explain it a bit better

Cheers

Steven

OK, now I understand.

You could make this either cookie or session driven; personally I'd make
it session driven (less traffic on the 'net). If you want to give them
the ability to save them across sessions, then I'd suggest a database.

No tutorials I know of - just store in and read from the $_SESSION
superglobal as necessary. And no scripts - something like that would be
quite site specific. But also very easy to write.

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[deepweb]

On Sep 25, 10:29 pm, Jerry Stuckle <[e-mail]:

deepweb wrote:

On Sep 24, 11:20 pm, Jerry Stuckle <[e-mail]:

deepweb wrote:
Hi there,
Does anyone know of a watchlist function or tutorial on how it might
be achieved
I want people to add database records to a watchlist for the duration
of their visit to a site.
Not sure if it might be cookie or session driven
Thanks in advance
Steven
Impossible, because you cannot know the "duration of the visit to a site".

The ONLY thing you can know is when they made their last request to your site.
Anything else is a pure guess.

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Jerry Stuckle
JDS Computer Training Corp.
[e-mail]
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Hi there,

Thanks for that, I must not have asked the question right, as there
are lots of site where you can click a button or link to add the
current page/record/article to "your watchlist" ie a list of items you
are interested enough in to tag as important.

I have a list of activities and accommodation that I want people to be
able to tag and then present them with a list they can print or email.

Does that explain it a bit better

Cheers

Steven

OK, now I understand.

You could make this either cookie or session driven; personally I'd make
it session driven (less traffic on the 'net). If you want to give them
the ability to save them across sessions, then I'd suggest a database.

No tutorials I know of - just store in and read from the $_SESSION
superglobal as necessary. And no scripts - something like that would be
quite site specific. But also very easy to write.

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JDS Computer Training Corp.
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Thanks Jerry, I'll get stuck into my sessions stuff.

Cheers