Posted by Erwin Moller on 09/30/79 11:36

Balazs Wellisch wrote:

> Has anyone here implemented sessions in a load balanced environment using
> database storage as a custom session handler? I'd be interested to hear
> about your experiences. Upsides, downsides, bugs, troubles, security, etc.
>
> Thanks,
> Balazs

Hi,

Yes, I did, but not with loadbalancing.
The loadbalancingpart is however irrelevant if you use a database for
sessionstorage, since every session will contact the same database that
stores the sessions.
(If you plan to use more databases for sessionstorage, I give up. :P)

A good place to start is at ZEND:
http://www.zend.com/zend/spotlight/code-gallery-wade8.php

That page contains a good example, but without sessionlocking.
I wrote my own that does implement sessionlocking. It is not tested 100%,
but seems to work great so far. If you are interested I'll publish it on
the net, but just start with zend. :-)

Regards,
Erwin Moller

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