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PHP PHP User Authentication Building the Library Building the Book List

Shoko Ishigaki
Shoko Ishigaki
21,826 Points
Posted by Shoko Ishigaki
Shoko Ishigaki
21,826 Points

Why do we use Symfony HttpFoundation for redirects instead of header function?

Is there any reason for using Symfony HttpFoundation for redirects after adding books? I understand HttpFoundation has some useful features, but I feel like it is much simpler and easy to understand to use header function (i.e header('Location: ' . '/book.php'); ) for this case.

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Ricardo Rodriguez
Ricardo Rodriguez
9,758 Points
Ricardo Rodriguez
Ricardo Rodriguez
9,758 Points

Shoko Ishigaki I think (not sure if it was on this course or another one) that the instructor @alenahilligan mentioned that there's not a right answer on regards to 'cookies VS session' when it comes to security and because of that she was going to be using some sort of mechanism from Symfony that makes the use of cookies very secure, so I'm guessing that the use of Symfony for redirecting might be related to that.