Re: Session management module - thoughts

Hi, This whole discussion reminds of the SAPI (server abstraction API) discussion we had a while back. Some of us, especially Zeev and I, wanted to keep it as simple as possible, so that PHP will have a server abstraction layer. Others wanted SAPI to be a super-duper library which would not have been PHP specific but would have benefited anyone who writes web server modules in the business. The fact is that the latter would have been a great thing to have, but things just don't happen when you try and create something too general and complex. Rather it took Zeev and me a few days (with the help of Shane's work) to get our own little SAPI abstraction layer working for PHP 4.0. If anyone will want to take that work and create a super-duper library out of it sometime, it might be cool but if we hadn't done what we did it would probably not have had it done by now. I feel the same way about session management. I think it's a must. I think 99% of the web developers will not need more than the simplicity of ASP's session management, and php-dev can develop it within a few days. That's really what's needed now. Later on, we could have an enhanced session module, which would be based on the simplistic one, which will do all the wonderful stuff you guys want it to do. But just for now, let's get the bare bones going. Let's try and aim to have the simplest, start_session(), session_variable(), session_end() working within a few days! Andi --- Andi Gutmans <andi@zend.com> ICQ: 1568297 -- 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