Re: Transaction including two web page + timer

Good idea.  One problem is that HTML is a stateless protocol.  How can I let
application to hold the whole contents of the first page and second page?

Thanks.

Z. Du



>From: Bruno Wolff III <bruno@wolff.to>
>To: Zhidian Du <duzhidian@hotmail.com>
>CC: pgsql-php@postgresql.org
>Subject: Re: [PHP] Transaction including two web page + timer
>Date: Sat, 9 Nov 2002 09:59:04 -0600
>
>On Sat, Nov 09, 2002 at 00:04:26 -0700,
>   Zhidian Du <duzhidian@hotmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > I have a question of, when users input some contents in the second page,
> > then the contents in first and second pages are inserted into tables;
> > Otherwise, rollback.
> >
> > I want to use transction to handle it.
> >
> > But when users input the contents in first page, how do I know users
>have
> > left( My program will roolback ) or want to continue input sone contents
>in
> > the second page (comit)?  Usig timer, for example? or some other better
> > idea.
>
>My suggestion would be not to start entering either page until the
>application
>has all of the data for both pages. Holding transactions open for long
>periods of time is not a good idea.
>
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