Re: [Q] Session provider & returning FAILURE from PS_OPEN_FUNC?

On 23 June 2015 at 23:09, Eric Stenson <ericsten@microsoft.com> wrote: > Quick behavioral question: > > If an extension is implementing a Session handler, and returns FAILURE > from its PS_OPEN_FUNC(), will the extension receive subsequent > PS_READ_FUNC()/PS_WRITE_FUNC() calls? > > Also, if an extension returns FAILURE from its PS_OPEN_FUNC(), will the > extension receive a PS_CLOSE_FUNC()/PS_DESTROY_FUNC() call? > No to all, if you return FAILURE then it results in an E_ERROR before the point where the session state is marked as active, i.e. it's fatal, so no further calls to anything will be made. http://lxr.php.net/xref/PHP_TRUNK/ext/session/session.c#488 I'd argue that this shouldn't be fatal, but that's another topic for another thread. > > If there are any docs on writing a Session handler, please let me know! > I'm happy to RTFM... > Not officially as far as I am aware but someone else may know different. There may be some unofficial resources on the net if your Google-fu is good enough, a cursory search didn't turn anything up for me. > > Thx! > --E. >