Re: SessionManager

From: Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2001 02:11:33 +0000
Subject: Re: SessionManager
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Quoting Hans Westerbeek <hw@xs4all.nl>: > It's the same value as for the XML_Parser class for example... There's > nothing in there that you can't do by using the primitive functions > yourself.... But: the value (to me) is the fact that it can be used in > other (future) PEAR-components. Aren't sessions a vital PHP-functionality? > Vital functionalities should be used in the same fashion as much as > possible, i.e. with a wrapper class. > > In the end that wrapper class will be bug-free, saving the developer of a > new Pear component that requires sessions a lot of work... This argument only holds if there are a lot of composite operations that you routinely perform with the session functions which make sense wrapped into one meta-action - ie, a method. XML is a lot more complicated than the session api. -chuck -- Charles Hagenbuch, <chuck@horde.org> Some fallen angels have their good reasons.

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