On Fri, Apr 27, 2001 at 10:54:21PM +0200, Christian Marschalek wrote: > > Otherwise, you can reasonably use > > either the http auth stuff, which is probably the best approach, > > especially for a site that's got any kind of heavy usage or > > something based on PHP sessions. However be forewarned that > > the sessions stuff isn't exactly the most efficient and fast. What's the problem with sessions? Are they slow? I don't see why since it just grabs the cookie from the browser and reads the appropriate file from the sessions directory. > Well PHP auth and sessions is probably the right aproach. Which one > would be more efficient or faster? I just wrote an auth library that uses sessions and stores passwords encrypted in the database. I am fairly new to PHP (tho experienced in other web devel technologies) so it might need improvements, but it works very well for me. -Roberto -- +----| http://fslc.usu.edu USU Free Software & GNU/Linux Club |------+ Roberto Mello - Computer Science, USU - http://www.brasileiro.net http://www.sdl.usu.edu - Space Dynamics Lab, Developer let length(Long_Walk) > length(Short_Pier) ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 6: Have you searched our list archives? http://www.postgresql.org/search.mpl
