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Chris Shiflett is an author and speaker who leads the web application security practice at OmniTI.

Storing Sessions in a Database

I've added another free article to my growing collection:

This article creates the necessary functions in steps, so that you hopefully better understand the final product and can make your own modifications to better suit your needs. If you're just interested in the code, you can look in the code repository for Essential PHP Security:

You might also be interested in Trick-Out Your Session Handler, an article by John Herren on Zend Developer Zone.

Note: Over the next few weeks, I hope to catch up on posting past articles as well as resuming my regular writing of both Security Corner and Guru Speak. Until then, there are 17 free articles available for you to read. Enjoy!

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Storing Sessions in a Database was posted on Sun, 30 Apr 2006 at 21:47:51 GMT.

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Ronald wrote:

A little hard for a rookie like me, but useful. I also thought you'd like to know there is a grea...

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Aren't you forgetting that the session will expire if _write() is never called? That excludes ...

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@Chris Shiflett, #4, belatedly: Google only accepts rel=canonical within the same domain. My s...

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After reading your article and all the comments, what I got out of this was that sessions are not...

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