Posted by Marcus Bointon on 11/14/72 11:22

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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