by BartVB » December 10th, 2002, 1:36 pm
phpBB checks your last session time (on the server) and it keeps track of individual forums in the cookies.
Because the capacity of cookies is very limited keeping track of read status is limited too. In phpBB 2.2 we're going to take a completely different approach that perfectly tracks what you've read and what not. Using it already on my own forum and I works pretty sweet (if I say so myself
).
Anyway, because it's a combination of server/client at the moment you will have an approximately correct status when you switch computers but it's not perfect because it's partially client based and because the capacilty of cookies is limited.
phpBB checks your last session time (on the server) and it keeps track of individual forums in the cookies.
Because the capacity of cookies is very limited keeping track of read status is limited too. In phpBB 2.2 we're going to take a completely different approach that perfectly tracks what you've read and what not. Using it already on my own forum and I works pretty sweet (if I say so myself :D).
Anyway, because it's a combination of server/client at the moment you will have an approximately correct status when you switch computers but it's not perfect because it's partially client based and because the capacilty of cookies is limited.