Re: Re: Session support in a web farm

On Sat, Aug 19, 2000 at 07:21:13PM +0200, Sebastian Bergmann wrote: > Daniel Beulshausen, a friend of mine who's also on this list, is > working on a database-abstracted Session Save Handler for PHP 4 > which works together with PHPLIB's database abstraction layer. When I originally wrote my PostgreSQL session handler, I entertained the idea of using an abstracted database interface (such as PEAR's), but for an operation as frequently used as session handler, I felt that I'd rather use native functions than incur the OO abstraction overhead. I mean, once it's running, you really don't need the flexibility that an abstracted interface offers, and it's almost trivial to adapt an existing database-native handler to a new database anyway. I'm not trying to discourage Daniel from doing to work; I almost wrote the very same thing. I just wanted to share my thoughts and conclusions on that approach. -- Jon Parise (jon@csh.rit.edu) . Rochester Inst. of Technology http://www.csh.rit.edu/~jon/ : Computer Science House Member