On 28 Jul 2005, at 14:13, Mark Rees wrote:
Rolling your own session management tool, whilst undoubtedly fun and
satisfying, is hardly an appropriate solution to this type of
enquiry, which
is apparently from someone taking their first steps in web
development.
Unsurprisingly, this is a situation that has been encountered many
times before, and there are off-the-shelf solutions. ADOdb has a
really nice session manager: http://phplens.com/lens/adodb/docs-
session.htm
Database-backed sessions are particularly useful if you have multiple
redundant web servers as successive hits within a session may go to
different servers, so file- or memory-based sessions are not much use.
Despite this, I also suspect that sessions may not be the way to go.
User authentication and management is not a synonym for sessions.
Marcus
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