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[nycphp-talk] question about session and scalability

Chris Shiflett shiflett at php.net
Wed Jan 7 20:27:15 EST 2004


--- Chris Hubbard <chubbard at next-online.net> wrote:
> My understanding is that if we're using $_sessions and the server goes 
> down, then, the user looses their session (and any work they'd done).

Just store your session data in a database. You can define your own
functions with session_set_save_handler().

If you're feeling adventurous, you can look into msession. As I
understand, it allows the servers to share sessions, so it is probably a
bit faster.

Chris

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