Re: Recursing sessions?

> On Sat, July 1, 2006 5:30 pm, Mark wrote: >> If the frames do any sort of processing on the session information, as >> is >> the case with squirrelmail, the last session to exit will overwrite >> all the >> changes made by prior frames. This can corrupt session information or >> lose >> versions of information. >> >> It is a HUGE problem that I don't see ANYONE addressing. > > Ah. > > Now I know which question you are asking... > > The built-in PHP session handler handles this by LOCKING the session > for writing until it is closed and done for each request. > > The simplistic example for user-defined handling sessions in the > manual does not, in fact, address this directly. > > The User Contributed Notes, last I checked, did have some rather sarky > comments about this issue, and some suggestions for how to fix it. > > If you are using a database, for example, locking via some mechanism > in the DB is probably a viable solution. Wrapping it all in a > Transaction is probably overkill, for example, but would work. > > Of course, the simplest solution remains: Don't use frames. In the world of <sarcasm>"Web 2.0"</sarcasm> This problem is only going to get worse. I think I have a solution, MCache, which is based on MSession, but I don't see the core PHP group liking it too much.