PHP and sessions

Dafydd · 01-18-2016, 03:09 AM

How many users can be online before it becomes necessary to use 'SESSIONS'?

NevemTeve · 01-18-2016, 03:18 AM

Unrelated. If you don't need sessions in your code, then you don't need $_SESSION in your code. A 'session' is a sequence of a user's actions, typically something like this: login-search-read-modify-search-insert-...-logout

Dafydd · 01-18-2016, 04:00 AM

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Originally Posted by NevemTeve

Unrelated. If you don't need sessions in your code, then you don't need $_SESSION in your code. A 'session' is a sequence of a user's actions, typically something like this: login-search-read-modify-search-insert-...-logout

That is exactly what I want to happen.

Perhaps I ask the wrong question. What would happen if 6000 users logged on within a 20 second period to search the same database for different information?

NevemTeve · 01-18-2016, 04:11 AM

That might or might not overload your servers (the web-server, the database-server or both).

teapottwo · 01-18-2016, 07:25 AM

Do you mean when to use session ID's or when to use session variables based on the session ID.