Re: Session management module - thoughts

On May 28, Zeev Suraski wrote: > I'm not sure I'm following you, but what I have in mind is something every > John Doe newbie user can handle. Something along the lines of: > > session_start(); This should also have an optional argument to set the session id explicitly, so someone can allow logging back in to a session (if for some reason PHP has lost track of the user). In fact, it should probably return whether the session was assigned a new identifier or was found to be an old one. This would even allow someone to implement GET-based or hidden-field based session ids on top if all we provide is cookie-based. (Not that I really think we want to limit ourselves, but it may make the most sense for initial implementations.) (To be clear, I agree with everything you're saying, I'm just pointing out places where we can leave wiggle room for people to do more on top of the basics we provide.) The other optional argument to session_start() to allow the location of the session information is also important, I think. It would allow people to multiple session "zones" on different pages, for example, and is also important for IPP hosting where you don't necessarily have access to the normal PHP configuration mechanisms. Jim -- 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