Re: [Phplib-users] session4_custom.inc

[Lindsay H. <fmo...@fm...>]

Thus spake Dennis Gearon on Wed, Apr 09, 2003 at 10:51:04AM CDT
> I'm on  a shared server, so I want my sessions to be in a database, away 
> from others using the filesystem.
> 
> Besides identifying a logged in user, what do you use sessions for?

Sessions are used anytime one needs to maintain state between pages.  The
information assoicated with the state can be the identity of a logged in
user, or it can be any information previously sent back to from the client
via a form or other feedback method, or a record of pages previously viewed,
etc.  Sessions make up for the fact the fact that the HTTP protocol itself
defines a session only in terms of service of a single page, whereas it's
often more useful to consider a session as spanning all the page retrievals
by a site visitor in the course of a visit.

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