Re: [Fwd: [PHP] Sessions in databases]

2009-10-09 Thread Jay Ess
Il pinguino volante wrote: (There were some erroros in the previous email, I'm sorry) Hi to all. I have to realize an authentication system for a lot of users. I heard that someone uses to store session states (?) into a database. I'd like to know how and, expecially, WHY to do it and what's

Re: [Fwd: [PHP] Sessions in databases]

2009-10-06 Thread Kim Madsen
Sam Stelfox wrote on 2009-10-06 18:09: If you are distributing your application over multiple servers, using a database for session tracking allows a user to continue there session regardless of which server their request bounces too. It prevents the need for 'sticky' network connections which

Re: [Fwd: [PHP] Sessions in databases]

2009-10-06 Thread Tom Worster
On 10/6/09 10:26 AM, "Il pinguino volante" wrote: > I have to realize an authentication system for a lot of users. > > I heard that someone uses to store session states (?) into a database. I'd > like to know how and, expecially, WHY to do it and what's would be better > (considering that I CANN

Re: [Fwd: [PHP] Sessions in databases]

2009-10-06 Thread Sam Stelfox
If you are distributing your application over multiple servers, using a database for session tracking allows a user to continue there session regardless of which server their request bounces too. It prevents the need for 'sticky' network connections which time out anyways. Databases can make sc

[Fwd: [PHP] Sessions in databases]

2009-10-06 Thread Il pinguino volante
(There were some erroros in the previous email, I'm sorry) Hi to all. I have to realize an authentication system for a lot of users. I heard that someone uses to store session states (?) into a database. I'd like to know how and, expecially, WHY to do it and what's would be better (considerin