[development] $_REQUEST/$_COOKIE scope in URLs?

[Richard Morse]

On Nov 2, 2007, at 10:20 AM, J-P Stacey wrote:

> I was wondering: what's the rationale behind doing this? The only  
> use I've worked out for putting cookies on the URL is when you're  
> migrating session data across domains. They're the last thing I'd  
> expect to start appearing in paging URLs: those just need the  
> current-page URL with modified offset and count parameters of some  
> sort.

If I understand what you're asking, it's very useful.

Example: I have a module (site_user_list) that lets you search on  
through the profile fields of users. It then displays a table of all  
the users who match your search, with columns for the various profile  
fields (this is a very simplistic description of what it's doing).  
You can click on the various columns to change the sort order. If the  
REQUEST is not serialized into the URL when the links to sort the  
table columns are created by theme_table, when you click no a column  
heading to resort the table, suddenly your search is abandoned.

Ricky


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