Re: Session management module: how ASP does it

On Sat, 29 May 1999, Zeev Suraski wrote: } ASP's session API, as far as I know, is equivalent to this: } } session_start(); } session_variable($var); } session_end(); Having used ASP for too many projects, I'll say that it's even easier than this. In ASP, you just assign 'session("keyname") = value', so, you could: <% Session("firstname") = "Jim" %> and then get it with <%= Session("firstname") %> ASP also allows for application-wide variables. Those work the same way, except it's Application() rather than Session(). App variables also have .Lock and .Unlock methods for mutex-like critical sections. Sesssion variables I believe are always synchronized. Sessions can be force-closed too, you just call Session.Close(). ASP allows apps to write handlers for when the App starts (first hit), App shuts down (IIS stopped), Session init, Session close, and Page open and Page close. They all must be in the global.asa file, based on some heirarchical system of directories that I don't really care about. You simply write a function Session_OnClose or Session_OnOpen, etc... Session on-close trapping is *key* for sites like Amazon and drugstore.com, which have one-click ordering where the order is sent when the session goes out of state. ASP does it out of the box. drugstore.com uses ASP, incidentally. You may not want that level of easy-ness, since it seems clunky to implement. The Java Servlet API works where you instantiate a Session class and then call getVariable and setVariable passing a key and a variable (or passing a key and getting a variable). 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