Re: Session management module - thoughts

On Fri, 28 May 1999, Zeev Suraski wrote: > > Hey, > > Looking at PHP 4.0, one of the only major issues in which it falls behind > ASP is internal session management. > I know Rasmus always said this stuff belongs in user space, but basically, > my opinion is that anything that more than a few people use, is better off > being written in native C. > > [...] > > What I have in mind is a KISS approach to sessions, through a built-in PHP > module. For information storage - use files. Implement functions that > start a session, that add variables to a session, and possibly that end a > session. At request_shutdown, simply store all variables that were > registered as session varaibles in a file, named after a unique key that's > generated by the session starter, and passed along through cookies (I > think it'll be fair to rely on cookies, and point people that don't trust > cookies to phplib's session support). > > In essence, assuming we have working serialize functions, all we have to > implement is file locking support and something that will clean up old > sessions, neither of which are beyond us. > > What do you guys say? I think this is a very good approach, implementing a simple but not necessarily optimal mechanism first. An improved version will no doubt "show up" for a feature as useful as this one. - Stig -- PHP Development Mailing List http://www.php.net/ To unsubscribe send an empty message to php-dev-unsubscribe@lists.php.net For help: php-dev-help@lists.php.net