about session variables

[sfullman]

I used to program in ASP, and was always advised against storing too much in session variables because it takes up too much memory.

It's my understanding in PHP that for session variables, an actual sd124asdfeisf.tmp file is created where the string is the session ID. I'm developing an application where I may need to store a large quantity of information from page to page.

Will this slow the system down significantly since this is stored in a session file? Any comments or pointers?

Thanks.
Sam Fullman

[raymie]

I suspect that it depends on what you mean by a large amount of data, I would suggest that you create a few test pages and see.

If it does seem to cause a problem then just dump the data onto a database table keyed by session id and if you store the data as php code you can read it back in and eval it when needed.