Re: [PHP4BETA] Backporting PHP4 session management

ml@buildfreedom.com wrote: > At 4/17/00, Matt McClanahan wrote: > >Having that extraneous background information out of the way, my question > >is.. How feasible would it way to backport PHP4's session management to 3, > >either in part or in full? > > Writing your own session management in PHP 3 is simple and > straightforward enough. I have a few websites written in PHP 3 > (with MySQL for backend) that use session management code > that I wrote specifically for those sites. > > I simply used the session management example in Atkinson's > 'Core PHP Programming' as a starting point. > > It works very well for my sites. > > Mark Lindsay > I have also done a few sites with php3 and mysql for session managment, all from scratch. I found the documentation for phplib to be unacceptable. The session managment in php4 is really just a framework if you want to use a database instead of a file system, which is probably prefered if the site is going to be as big as you say it is.