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[Phplib-users] Current status of support for native php4 sessions

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

What is the current status of php4 session management support in phplib? 
The last time I checked (some months ago) this was still a ways down the
road, and I note that some of the files such as session4.inc are noted as
"untested", although this, like much in the documentation, may be out of
date.

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Re: [Phplib-users] Current status of support for native php4 sessions

[Dr T. S. <ta...@sa...>]

On Wed, 15 Jan 2003, Lindsay Haisley wrote:

> What is the current status of php4 session management support in phplib? 
> The last time I checked (some months ago) this was still a ways down the
> road, and I note that some of the files such as session4.inc are noted as
> "untested", although this, like much in the documentation, may be out of
> date.

Try http://phplib.sourceforge.net/snapshots/ has PHP 4 sessions with
register_globals = off and several other enhancements

I am already using this on one of my commercial project

Tarique

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Re: [Phplib-users] Current status of support for native php4 sessions

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

Is it upward compatible with applications and pages developed using phplib
sessions stored in a database?  I have a bunch of customer sites which
depend heavily on php and phplib and I don't want to break anything for
them.

Thus spake Dr Tarique Sani on Wed, Jan 15, 2003 at 10:40:43PM CST
> On Wed, 15 Jan 2003, Lindsay Haisley wrote:
> 
> > What is the current status of php4 session management support in phplib? 
> > The last time I checked (some months ago) this was still a ways down the
> > road, and I note that some of the files such as session4.inc are noted as
> > "untested", although this, like much in the documentation, may be out of
> > date.
> 
> Try http://phplib.sourceforge.net/snapshots/ has PHP 4 sessions with
> register_globals = off and several other enhancements
> 
> I am already using this on one of my commercial project
> 
> Tarique
> 
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Re: [Phplib-users] Current status of support for native php4 sessions

[Joe S. <joe...@us...>]

On Wed, Jan 15, 2003 at 09:59:11PM -0600, Lindsay Haisley wrote:
> What is the current status of php4 session management support in phplib? 
> The last time I checked (some months ago) this was still a ways down the
> road, and I note that some of the files such as session4.inc are noted as
> "untested", although this, like much in the documentation, may be out of
> date.
> 

phplib 7.4-pre2 has been released which has php4 session support.

http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=31885&release_id=133677https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=31885&release_id=133677

From the release notes:

----------------------------------------------------------------------------
phplib-7.4-pre2
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Some features and improvements include:

php4 session support ( prepend.php)
register_globals can be off for most classes

To use phplib storage with php4 sessions use the session4_custom class 
extension.


Joe

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Re: [Phplib-users] Current status of support for native php4 sessions

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

Thus spake Joe Stewart on Thu, Jan 16, 2003 at 06:24:02AM CST
> On Wed, Jan 15, 2003 at 09:59:11PM -0600, Lindsay Haisley wrote:
> > What is the current status of php4 session management support in phplib? 
> > The last time I checked (some months ago) this was still a ways down the
> > road, and I note that some of the files such as session4.inc are noted as
> > "untested", although this, like much in the documentation, may be out of
> > date.
> > 
> 
> phplib 7.4-pre2 has been released which has php4 session support.

I noticed that, which is why I asked.  The comment in session4.inc says,
however:

* WARNING: code is untested!
*

Which leads me to conclude that the code may not yet be ready for a
production environment.  Some of my hosting customers depend on phplib
session management for proper functioning of their websites.  One person on
this list replied to me saying that he was using phplib with php4 session
management successfully on a production site, but I do take warnings such as
the above pretty seriously when it comes to deploying software for my
customers.
 
Assuming that this code is production ready, what modifications, if any, are
required on existing pages using php database session management to convert
them to using native php4 session management under phplib?  I know, for
instance, that page_close() isn't required if one is using php4 session
management, but I would hope that I wouldn't have to make sure that all my
customer sites with page_close() in one or more of their pages wouldn't
require that a null function be defined somewhere for them so as to avoid
generating an error.

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Re: [Phplib-users] Current status of support for native php4 sessions

[Chris J. <ch...@ch...>]

On Thu, Jan 16, 2003 at 10:52:13AM -0600, Lindsay Haisley wrote:

> Thus spake Joe Stewart on Thu, Jan 16, 2003 at 06:24:02AM CST
> > phplib 7.4-pre2 has been released which has php4 session support.

> I noticed that, which is why I asked.  The comment in session4.inc says,
> however:
> 
> * WARNING: code is untested!
> *
> 
> Which leads me to conclude that the code may not yet be ready for a
> production environment.  

> Lindsay Haisley       | "Everything works    |     PGP public key

Maybe the comments in the code would be slightly more useful if they said
"Warning: code was only tested by the developer at the time this comment
was written."  Which is to say, given the nature of contributions to this
open source project, and the limited amount of formal organization, PHPLIB
is really only tested by its users, first by the early adopters, and then
by the rest, I guess.

None of the code in the beta releases or actual "final" releases (when we
finally get there) will actually be completely untested.  But it is the
case that some gets more testing than others, and that we do not (yet?)
have a nice set of regression tests.  That would be very nice to have
should anyone feel like creating or donating such a thing.

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Re: [Phplib-users] Current status of support for native php4 sessions

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

Thus spake Chris Johnson on Fri, Jan 17, 2003 at 03:30:03PM CST
> On Thu, Jan 16, 2003 at 10:52:13AM -0600, Lindsay Haisley wrote:
> 
> > Thus spake Joe Stewart on Thu, Jan 16, 2003 at 06:24:02AM CST
> > > phplib 7.4-pre2 has been released which has php4 session support.
> 
> > I noticed that, which is why I asked.  The comment in session4.inc says,
> > however:
> > 
> > * WARNING: code is untested!
> > *
> > 
> > Which leads me to conclude that the code may not yet be ready for a
> > production environment.  
> 
> > Lindsay Haisley       | "Everything works    |     PGP public key
> 
> Maybe the comments in the code would be slightly more useful if they said
> "Warning: code was only tested by the developer at the time this comment
> was written."  Which is to say, given the nature of contributions to this
> open source project, and the limited amount of formal organization, PHPLIB
> is really only tested by its users, first by the early adopters, and then
> by the rest, I guess.

I'm cautious by nature on this, since if things break, my phone rings with
upset customers asking why.  I tend to run a good deal closer to the edge on
my personal stuff, and make sure everything that I have deployed on customer
sites is solid before I move code and server technology to them.

My guess is that the developer's comment is a bit out of date, and a bunch
of people have banged on it since the comment was inserted.
 
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