#17848 [Opn->Bgs]: Session stored in db doesn't show up until data is stored with it

ID: 17848 Updated by: georg@php.net Reported By: fabian@ahrberg.se -Status: Open +Status: Bogus Bug Type: Session related Operating System: Linux 2.4 kernel PHP Version: 4.2.1 New Comment: Usually if you don't store information in your session variables, there is no need to store some information in the database. Connecting to the database and inserting data implicates performance disadvantages. If you have to store information for stats, use normal db functions and insert them via delayed insert. Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2002-06-19 15:23:43] fabian@ahrberg.se Just a suggestion... Workarounds bothers me... ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2002-06-19 15:18:15] hholzgra@php.net why don't you just register a dummy variable? would take about the same amount of code rewrite as the session_start() flag you suggested, but save us C code changes, documentation update and QA testing ... ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2002-06-19 14:13:36] fabian@ahrberg.se I used to store sessions in mysql as it made it easy for me to jsut count the rows to find out how many sessions that were being used at a time. Since I also stored whether a session was "logged in" or not it made it very easy to make realtime stats such as: 95 visitors, 65 logged in When I upgraded to 4.1.x, I'm not sure it could be 4.0.2 or something like that it suddenly stopped working. When I looked into it I found out that the sessions started but with no variables written to them never showed up in my session table which is REALLY annoying as I no longer can get the stats out as easily as before. Someone told me it's a feature not to store the empty sessions, according to me it's a problem. Maybe a flag with the session_start could be used? So the feature wanting can keep it as it is right now and I can store my empty sessions? Somewhat bothered... ;) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Edit this bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=17848&edit=1