On Oct 18, 1:27 pm, Ren <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Oct 18, 12:22 am, moses wejuli <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > Thanks Dustin.
>
> > I guess what i'm really askin is: would you recommend using memcached for
> > session management in PHP.. the PHP extension for memcache has got a
> > facility for manging sessions. This behaviour (using memcache for session
> > mgmt) can be turned on in the PHP ini file.
>
> > I know/believe C is your primary language of expression but if you are at
> > all familiar with PHP, please let me know your thoughts. Sessions are pretty
> > non-trivial in PHP. I would presume in case of a cache miss, PHP would look
> > to the default session store: the filesystem!
>
> There is no fall back to the file system for a cache miss, when using
> MemCache extension.
> It'll just start a new (empty) session, I believe.
>
> The PHP configuration setting is reused for both files & memcache
> session save handlers.
> If files, its a directory to save sessions too, if memcache it's a
> list of memcache addresses.
>
> So using sessions becomes dependant on a memcache.
> Therefore unusable for anything serious.
>
> Jared
Should read
The PHP session.save_path configuration setting is reused for both
files & memcache...
Jared
