Re: Internals of Session files
| From: | (Chris Adams) | Date: | Thu, 18 Jan 2001 17:53:41 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Internals of Session files | ||
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On 18 Jan 2001 08:28:50 -0800, Eivind Trondsen <eivind@allycards.com> wrote:
>Can someone shed any light on the internals of the session file
>format? Is it documented somewhere?
>
>We are building a system to log user paths, and are thinking of
>harvesting PHP session objects to accomplish this. Has someone done
>the same?
First, you probably want to have your code log to a database instead. The
session files won't have the context information you want. Alternately, just
turn on mod_usertrack in your Apache config and any decent log analysis program
will be able to do that for you.
However, if you do want to decipher those files, note the similarity between
the contents of one and the output of serialize($HTTP_SESSION_VARS).