Re: Session handling with php3

> > Session handling started with php4, so no, php3 doesn't support it. You can > > use phplib with php3 for session handling and it is very similar to the php4 > > session handling, but it appeared more confusing to me, though perhaps more > > powerful? > > > > PHPLIB can be found at: > > http://phplib.netuse.de/ > > > > I've decided to use php4 session handling rather than phplib myself. > > I'm still with PHP3 and have established app's so not going to be using PHP4 for > a little while yet. So all my sessions are achieved with a cookie and > server-side database (Hooray for MySQL) to store everything. > > Just out of interest, am I missing out on a lot with Sessions, beyond > convenience? I haven't looked into it very deeply, but I believe they pretty much do what you are doing, except I don't think that actually store the session persistant variables in a database, but probably just a file. It would be fairly easy to do your own session management, but its always good when you can use something thats already done :) So, if you have already implemented it, I don't think the PHP4 sessions will provide you much more, though storing variables into a database every page might be a bit slow. But like I said, I haven't looked into all the functionality that deeply, so there could be more there than I know. Regards, Kelly.