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Posted by Jerry Stuckle on 01/22/08 13:20
Pankaj wrote:
> Hi,
>
> My site works on sessions. Currently when a user logs in, I store all
> information in a database table. Whenever the user does something, I
> check the database to see if the session is active. If so, I update
> the date and time and then update the other tables. If the seesion is
> not active, I ask him to enter his password again. A cron job runs
> every 30 mins to clean up the inactive sessions.
>
> The problem with this approach is that it puts a huge load on the
> database server as for every activity I have to check one table and
> based on its value, I perform other operations. What could be a more
> effective way of handling this ? I cannot rely on the session file
> created when I start a session because if a user closes the browser
> window without logging out, I should be able to mark that session as
> closed.
>
> Thanks
> Pankaj
>
I still don't understand why you're going through all this trouble. Why
aren't you just storing the data in the session itself? That's what
it's there for.
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