Session Initialization

[kennethl]

I'd like to establish a session initialization function that creates some tables in a DB for that user that will be dropped later on to clean up after the user.
I've been looking at session_set_save_handler() as a possibility. The PHP documentation makes it sound like it ought to be able to do what I want, but doesn't make clear how one makes use of this. The example in the doc shows:

session_set_save_handler ("open", "close", "read", "write", "destroy", "gc");

Do you create this as an include file and include it in all your scripts that will make use of the sessions? Will the "open" function then be called upon session_start()?

[Anon]

i don't think you fully understand uses of sessions... if you are creating a database table to track user data while they are on the site and remove it later, that is exactlly what sessions do right out of the box.

if you NEED to do this, explain your situation and maybe a smarter solution exists.

[kennethl]

The plan is to create a "demo" version of a DB-driven site that already exists. The site is set up to allow people who know nothing about HTML or PHP or anything to update the site. The demo will allow prospective clients to sign in and use the site administration tools, so what I want to do is recreate the tables and data in the DB so when they make changes to the data, only they will see those changes...anyone else who logs in will get their own tables to play with.
So what I want to do is use the session to keep track of who is who and tie them to their own tables. I just need a good way to set up the database for each new user that logs in.
Or, of course, a better way to approach this, if anyone has ideas.