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Re: Request: Posts since last visit


ardentfrost
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@ardentfrost

Ultimately the plugin should have the choice of cookies or database… or just two separate plugins that do it, one using cookies and one using the database. For small to medium size forums, the database method will be fine, but once you get to the point where you have thousands of people accessing the site, the database driven method will bog down the server.

The cookies method shouldn’t be too difficult… I was researching it a couple weeks ago and php has good cookie handling.

If you end up doing it using the database method, I might still do it using the cookie method. Please don’t fully integrate it into your online list so that people can have a choice…. make it an additional plugin that uses your online list (if that’s how you’re doing it)

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