Re: Session management module - thoughts

I agree. Zeev On Fri, 28 May 1999, Jim Winstead wrote: > 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 > -- ----------------------------------------------------- Zeev Suraski <zeev@zend.com> For a PGP public key, finger bourbon@netvision.net.il -- 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