[geeklog-devel] PHP Sessions and PEAR Class

[Blaine Lang]

Tony wrote:
> Sessions are session.  Thus how long a session lives either using files
or the DB is up to the coder.  It sounds like you thought the TTL was
different for both and they are, in fact the same.

Nope - I knew that the location of storage had no effect. Thats not what I
was referring to.

I was stating that SESSIONS are not normally designed to be active as long
as cookies and thus we may not find they can replace cookies. I was also
stating that we may want to use $_CONF for some of the SESSION settings such
as TTL.

Tony, can you review my initial questions I'd like your input.

I've just reviewed the CLASS code and have these questions and observations

1) There will likely be a need to add a few new $_CONF options,
specifically:
- Mode:  Option to use DB or Session files
- Session_name: Default
- Expiretime: Time for session to be active
- Idletime: Possibly needed

2: What is the difference between Expire Time and Idle Time ?

3. What are the function methods for localVariables used for - what beneft ?
   ->setLocal(), ->getLocal(), ->localName()

4. I am thinking the only time we need to use session_destroy is upon
logout.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tony Bibbs" <tony at tonybibbs.com>
To: <geeklog-devel at lists.geeklog.net>
Sent: Wednesday, August 04, 2004 5:49 PM
Subject: Re: [geeklog-devel] PHP Sessions and PEAR Class


Sessions are session.  Thus how long a session lives either using files
or the DB is up to the coder.  It sounds like you thought the TTL was
different for both and they are, in fact the same.

Just a point of clarity.

--Tony

Blaine Lang wrote:

>Vinny Wrote: I agree. If we push it back we can plan things out a bit
better
>and maybe eliminate some of those other cookies we have...
>Dirk wrote Yeah, I've always had the feeling (and got the occasional
>complaint) that we're using too many cookies.
>
>I'm not sure we can eliminate these cookies since SESSIONS probally will
>only be resident on the server (if files are used) for 15min or so and if
we
>use the DB for SESSIONS would we not be removing them as well after some
>configured time interval.
>
>Adding suport for SESSIONS should not be complicated to add to GL and it
>would be good to get some exposure and testing so that we can tweak it's
>usage and determine how best to use SESSIONS in our GL functions.
>
>----- Original Message ----- 
>From: "Dirk Haun" <dirk at haun-online.de>
>To: <geeklog-devel at lists.geeklog.net>
>Sent: Wednesday, August 04, 2004 4:56 PM
>Subject: Re: [geeklog-devel] PHP Sessions and PEAR Class
>
>
>Vinny,
>
>
>
>>I agree. If we push it back we can plan things out a bit better and
>>maybe eliminate some of those other cookies we have...
>>
>>
>
>Yeah, I've always had the feeling (and got the occasional complaint) that
>we're using too many cookies.
>
>
>
>
>>Dirk, maybe you should call out "feature freeze" and just spend the
>>next two weeks squashing bugs in what we have thus far?
>>
>>
>
>We need one or two new features for the integration of the SpamX plugin,
>and I don't want to rule out the occasional minor addition (as long as it
>doesn't break anything or require too many changes), but in general
>bugfixes are currently the #1 priority.
>
>bye, Dirk
>
>
>
>
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