Re: using the session object

i personally hate to put too much data in the session
the less in it the faster the requests are

if there is a chance that you need this data only on some pages
and only in the views (not in controller actions where you might get
redirected anyway etc)
i would put it in a file in tmp/data or whatever and name it like the
session id (session_id())

now you can check on the existing file and retrieve the content if you
need it

alternatively you could hash the session_id(), use the user_id or any
other unique key as name
and save this key in the session.
the session stays very lightweighted - and you still have access to a
huge file content.

you should have a garbige collector (cronjob) clearing that folder
every once in a while

On 24 Dez., 12:19, robustsolution <i...@robustsolution.net> wrote:
> you ask a great question
>
> I forget about putting in database because it should be treated as
> permanent storage not temporary/volatile storage
> now about file caching.
> either you use session or you create your own cache engine.
> if the arrays are large I prefer create my own cache engine but
> instead of "file_get_contents" the cahced version I "include" it.
>
> so this is the defference between session (serialized data), and cutom
> cache engine (that creates a normal PHP script file to be included
> later)
>
> and the happy new year
> On Dec 23, 10:24 pm, Josh <joshs.silver...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I have a fairly large array that I would like to access across http
> > requests in a given session.
>
> > Is there a performance disadvantage to putting this in the session
> > object?
>
> > The other option it seems is to put the data in the db, but I have no
> > need for this data to persist across sessions, so it seems
> > unnecessary.
>
> > Thanks.

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