Does the selection actually hold for the Anonymous users? or do they need to choose the selection apon every return?
| Project: | Taxonomy Sifter |
| Version: | 5.x-1.0-alpha3 |
| Component: | Miscellaneous |
| Category: | support request |
| Priority: | normal |
| Assigned: | NancyDru |
| Status: | closed |
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I tried this module, but couldn't get it to work (see my previous bug report).
So I didn't even get to see how this module works and what it does. I'm looking for a functionality that would allow users (both Anonymous and Registered) to customise the list of news in a more-or-less durable way (so that user's selection stays true whenever she returns to the site), so as to get rid of the topics that they are not interested in. BUT from what I understand the method by which the users selections are remembered is in different ways depending where the user is registered or anonymous. For example www.Reddit.com and www.BBC.co.uk allow anonymous/non-registered users to customize their front page (I assume it's written into a cookie). Digg, on the other hand, lets its registred users to select the topics and to save the selection preferences to their account settings (i.e the database).
I wonder how Taxonomy Sifter does it??? Can it provide this kind of functionality for the Anonymous users? What about Anonymous users as well as Registered members?
I have originally posted this forum topic http://drupal.org/node/333491 with the original idea. Then I found Taxonomy Browser module and posted this feature request http://drupal.org/node/333514 (see the attached screenshot) asking to allow the selection to be saved to user's account settings. But in effect that would leave the anonymous users out, and that is why I had great hopes for Taxonomy Sifter when I found out that it has a new maintainer in 5x - to provide that functionality for anonymous users too.
The maintainer of Taxonomy Browser said that she would eventually like to get Taxonomy Sifter and Taxonomy Browser modules closer to each other.
#1
Taxonomy Sifter stores the choices as Session variables, so that are saved in the Sessions table -- I don't know about in the cookie. IIRC there is a setting for how long to keep the session data.
#2
So will it work for Anonymous users or Registered users? or both?
#3
It will definitely work for registered users, as long as they do not log out. I don't know if the session variables are stored in the cookie or not - I will have to do some research on that.
#4
The session variables are stored in the sessions table, which is keyed to the cookie. As long as both remain intact, yes, this information should be saved for both anonymous and registered users. I think this takes care of this issue, so I marked it as fixed; if you disagree, please change it back to active.
#5
Automatically closed -- issue fixed for two weeks with no activity.