PHP's Session Storage
I'm having some trouble understanding PHP's sessions. First off I am saving session data 开发者_开发技巧in a database, I used PHP's session_set_save_handler()
function to define that.
The way I understand when PHP saves the session data to the DB is like so:
If I define some session variables then output some text to the user's browser, I believe the session data is not saved to the DB until after the text is output. Please look at this bit of code:
$_SESSION['username'] = $username;
//check if session variable set
if($_SESSION['username'] != $username)
{
die('error...');
}
In the code the if statement returns false so die()
never occurs. Also PHP does not write the session data to the DB until after the if statement. What I don't understand is if the session data is not written to the DB yet, how is PHP comparing $_SESSION['username']
to $username
? Is $_SESSION['username']
stored in server memory until the end of the script when session data is written to the DB?
Thank you for your time.
_SESSION is an "ordinary" array, like $a = array()
is.
The "magic" only happens when session_start() is called and previously stored data is read (back) to _SESSION and when the session mechanism stops (when the php instance shuts down or when session_write_close() is called) and the data in _SESSION is serialized and stored.
Exactly right.
Session data is kept in-memory until the end of the request (or until session_write_close() is called). The contents of $_SESSION are then written to the configured storage mechanism.
On the next request, when session_start() happens, the data are loaded from storage to $_SESSION, where they stay, until the request is finished.
Otherwise, PHP would be reading/writing to the database (in your case) every time you touched anything in session.
You can use a session_write_close to force php to write the session.
See : http://us2.php.net/manual/en/function.session-write-close.php
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