Re: [PHP4BETA] Session

>At 03:07 PM 3/7/00, you wrote: > > > > However, I found that Session is on and off. (ie. it sometimes preserves > > > > value and sometimes not) > > > It seems that you sometimes have to create a dummy session, destroy it, and > > > then create a proper one. Check the archives for "dummy". > > > > I've never seen such an email. Do they exist? > >It may have been in the PHP3 list... anyway, it was Kenneth Whathisname who was >getting the session code to work using MySQL as the storage device - he had to >create a dummy session, destroy it, then create a proper one. Check the >archives incase you missed it. Just search for 'dummy' as I mentioned above. >Either that or he mentioned it privately to me and I'm hallucinating again ;-) > OK, the email that Kenneth Mutka wrote has a subject line of '[PHP4BETA] Sessions & Mysql again' and appeared on the php4beta mailling list around 21 Jan 2000 13:42:31 -0000. I also had a play with writting session handler functions for mysql after looking through Keneths code. What I found was that if a session was being created by the 'read' function it had to return something as the session data. A new session has no session data though, this is why Keneth was generating a 'dummy' session - to 'prime' the session data. I found that by setting an empty session's data to "|" was sufficient to avoid having to have a dummy session, but it will only work if the internal php serialization functions are being used to serailize the session. See attached files... I havent maintained these in the past month or so, there may be some things that hvent kept pace with changes to the sessions module. -- Regards, Alan van den Bosch Sanguis Pty Ltd /* All generalizations are false. */

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# phpMyAdmin MySQL-Dump # http://www.htmlwizard.net/phpMyAdmin/ # # Host: localhost Database : sessions # -------------------------------------------------------- # # Table structure for table 'session' # CREATE TABLE session ( sid varchar(32) DEFAULT '#' NOT NULL, sData text NOT NULL, mtime timestamp(14), PRIMARY KEY (sid) );