hi, i'm getting going with PHP and am sussing out how to use sessions to store data and the likes. I'm currently saving multiple sets of data in normal XML files which i load each time i choose them. As i'm using sessions to hodl short term data i'm left thinking that i could always just keep this data active inside a session rather than using seperate files. this would give me much more flexibility in what i can do with the data, but i'm windering if this is technically a really bad idea, as effectively i'm saying i'd have one session... ever.

Would this be bad usage of a session?

Hi,
I think it is a dab idea. Nothing personal
for data storage, consider a database.
quick, easy, and thouroghly testing.
good luck
Michael

well I think i'll forget that all and for a full blown mysql database. not sure why i didn't want one really...

but i didn't think it was a nice thing to do, thanks