Posted by god.lightgod on 01/21/08 15:43

On jan. 21, 14:33, Pankaj <panah...@gmail.com> 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

oh... and... into the table... UID... One User One Sessid... if the
session is... time out...at the next UserLogin... You update her/his
rowin the session table ^_^ is not in this manner duplicating and it
is not necessary to deal with the unnecessary entries very much.

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