Re: Why use sessions and not DB?

THe issue of multiple front ends still holds here I think, tho, unless you're doing some type of 'sticky bit' thing. If you're sticking to one server always, no reason to not use files. Unless.... you're handling thousands of files - I think the filesystem opening/closing those files may impact you more with 1000s of files than handing it all off to a db to handle. CDitty wrote: > The data that is going to get written is only going to be valid for a short > time. It is to prevent the user from seeing the same banner more than X > times. > > CDitty > > At 05:34 PM 8/29/00 , Michael Kimsal wrote: > >Agreed. Storing session info into database will let you scale > >to multiple front end machines much easier. If that's even a > >remote possibility, you'd want to store info in a db. > > > >We've been gzcompressing large amounts of session data > >(large shopping carts) before writing to the database. Now instead of > >continually sending receiving 1-2k chunks across the wire between > >server and db, we send 300-400 bytes each time, which is helping > >speed things up. > > > >Jason Murray wrote: > > > > > > I am arguing(not really) with one of my partners about the use of > > > sessions. He > > > > is new to web programming but has been programming other db related > > > languages > > > > for years. He wants to use the db to store certain information and I > > want > > > to > > > > use sessions. > > > > > > Why not store the session info in a database? > > > > > > Jason > > > (setting cats amongst pigeons ;)) > > > > > > -- > > > Jason Murray > > > jasonm@melbourneit.com.au > > > Web Design Team, Melbourne IT > > > Don't believe everything you're foretold. > > > > > > -- > > > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > > > For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net > > > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net > > > >-- > >========================== > >Michael Kimsal > >http://www.tapinternet.com > >734-480-9961 > > > > > > > >-- > >PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > >To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > >For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net > >To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net -- ========================== Michael Kimsal http://www.tapinternet.com 734-480-9961