Il pinguino volante wrote:
(There were some erroros in the previous email, I'm sorry)
Hi to all.
I have to realize an authentication system for a lot of users.
I heard that someone uses to store session states (?) into a database.
I'd like to know how and, expecially, WHY to do it and what's would be
better (considering that I CANNOT -d'oh!- edit the php.ini file).
Considering you cannot edit the php.ini-file i suspect you are on a
shared host. Using the database for intense work in a shared environment
is not always popular. I would guess that file based session-files are
more scalable. And as you are using a shared hosting service you are
probably not load balanced between physical different boxes and this
would not gain from using the DB.
So if you have to manage a large number of user sessions i would suggest
you choose a VPS or deducated/colo box and then use DB with memcached in
between for fast caching. That is the way i have done it for a couple of
sites i am working on.
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