On Sun, May 9, 2010 at 9:30 AM, Amos Shapira <[email protected]> wrote: > On 8 May 2010 15:48, Jeff Waugh <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> <quote who="justin randell"> >> > was it a desire to use a non-file based store and an aversion to using >> > custom session handlers? was it a desire to control the strength of the >> > cookie hash? > > Without getting into WordPress or the session storage options it > provides - In principle I'd prefer none-file-based permanent session > store simply to allow multiple front server to share the load of > serving any session from any server. > > This usually leads to client-server style databases or things like > memcachedb in redundant configuration.
This is the exact problem I came across recently when developing a Wordpress extension. Coming from Drupal land I thought sessions would be stored in the DB out of the box. But alas there is more code to write... though I haven't looked if an appropriate plugin exists. -- Simon Males -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
