Re: DATABASE SESSION vs NON DB SESSION

Jingle Balls wrote: > I have been reading the posts and some articles about PHP sessions and I got > myself confused (I know it happens a lot). However I am a bit perplexed over > this. I hear a lot of people wanting to keep session information in a DB, > doesnt PHP have a great server side storage of session variables? All you > need to keep client side is a single cookie of the sessionid? > > If this is the case, why go the DB route? You can keep preferences and log > info to the actual database, adn read those in when the user logs in and > then keep them as session variables. > This doesn't work in a multi-server environment - 5 web servers to one database server, for example. -- ========================== Michael Kimsal http://www.tapinternet.com 734-480-9961