Session handling

[terkildsen]

I have a problem concerning session handling.

At the moment we're handling usersessions via a mysql-database. But we're a bit concerned about the performance as our website grows in popularity and our server gets more and more loaded with requests.

Therefore we have been thinking about using PHP's built in session object. My question is:
Has anyone had any experience with this and what are the pros and cons when comparing to the way we handle sessions right now?

/Peter

[terje-s]

Personally, I am of the type that would rather use my own system if I'm capable of writing one, so I'd stick with my own 😉

However, PHP session data is stored as regular files in the FS, and thus it is pretty slow. I'd stick with the database solution if possible. (I wrote my own session handling library thingie to register variables etc. in mysql, if you're interested drop me an email.)