Session Management in PHP3 (can it be done?)

[Anon]

Wow, session variables in PHP work just how I would want them too, only problem is the session management functions came in with PHP4. Unfortunately, looks like my host is running PHP3. Are their any work arounds beside doing the cookies myself, or for a shopping cart, is the username in cookies and purchase data in DB the best way? I'd prefer not to use the DB as it is only a small app which needs to deployed quickly, but somehow I have the feeling any work around would take just as long 🙂

Thanks

Louis

[Anon]

Well you can use phplib, it has some session functionality and it works with php3. Another option is to create your own session handling functions, it's not all that hard, all you have to do is use a little md5(), sendcookie() (or put the session id on the commandline instead if you wish) , serialize() & unserialize(), and some minor file saving opening functions and yer there. 🙂

I'd toss up some sample code but I'm betting it would be quite redundant, you're probably best to look in on phplib, it's a tried and true was of doing this stuff on php3.

[Anon]

Yeah, I keep seeing references to PHPLIB around the place. Would you happen to know where I can find some good docs/reference for PHPLIB? I've been looking around a bit and nothing seemed to explain it very well.

Regards

Louis