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Guidance Needed - El Forum - 04-15-2013 [eluser]Uresh Patel[/eluser] I have one requirement like i need to display 5 fields of a login user on every page of website. (Name,DOB,Age,Nationality,Height) I am not sure to which way i need to choose from.I think of 2 ways here. 1. I store 5 fields in session at time of login 2. I create a model method that gives all this data and call that from all controller.method through of the site. Guidance Needed - El Forum - 04-15-2013 [eluser]jairoh_[/eluser] why on every page? well if that is ur case u can use javascript or jquery. u write it only once ( could be on the footer, just hide it.) i would that if i were u. Guidance Needed - El Forum - 04-16-2013 [eluser]Uresh Patel[/eluser] [quote author="jairoh_" date="1366095222"]why on every page? well if that is ur case u can use javascript or jquery. u write it only once ( could be on the footer, just hide it.) i would that if i were u.[/quote] Guidance Needed - El Forum - 04-16-2013 [eluser]TheFuzzy0ne[/eluser] I think I'd store it in the session. It's only a relatively tiny amount of data (around 100 bytes?), so it should be fine in a cookie. If you have database sessions enabled, that's even better yet. Guidance Needed - El Forum - 04-17-2013 [eluser]Uresh Patel[/eluser] Hi, Thank you for reply. I have stored that data in session.Looks good.But then i found another issue like when user will update records of profile that will not show updated data on left bar.Coz it already stored login time session data. Or i need to update session data at time of update profile... [quote author="TheFuzzy0ne" date="1366129431"]I think I'd store it in the session. It's only a relatively tiny amount of data (around 100 bytes?), so it should be fine in a cookie. If you have database sessions enabled, that's even better yet.[/quote] Guidance Needed - El Forum - 04-19-2013 [eluser]jairoh_[/eluser] [quote author="Uresh Patel" date="1366183970"]Hi, Thank you for reply. I have stored that data in session.Looks good.But then i found another issue like when user will update records of profile that will not show updated data on left bar.Coz it already stored login time session data. Or i need to update session data at time of update profile... [quote author="TheFuzzy0ne" date="1366129431"]I think I'd store it in the session. It's only a relatively tiny amount of data (around 100 bytes?), so it should be fine in a cookie. If you have database sessions enabled, that's even better yet.[/quote] [/quote] then update the session when the user updates the record |