There is a useful article here:
http://phpbuilder.com/columns/ying20000602.php3?page=1
As to "up to a million users" logged in at once... don't you wantto have
multiple redundant web servers running under a load balancer? If the rest
of your system can handle that many concurrent users, then I doubt PHP
sessions will be much more of a strain on your system... unless you're
storing some huge amount of data in each session.
Pete.
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> I am setting up a website with a need to use some sort of
> session management for a large amount of users. I cannot
> use typical file based session managment because at any
> given time there could be up to a million users logged in
> at once. (It is a LAMP linux/apache/php4/mysql system).
> I am a bit confused though as how to go about this. The
> user will be authenticated by verifying a username/password
> combo in a database, and then a session created.
> My question is this:
> After authentication, which type of session managment
> should I use? I mean, just do the standard php stuff with
> the session_ functions? (wo'nt this be bad with the # of
> simoltaneous users i need to support, because of the # of
> files on the server?) Or, shall I use something more complex
> like PHPLIB or create my own scheme using mysql? Is
> there any exisiting code/functions that can make creating
> my own scheme easier in order to support mysql or am i
> way off with this question? I just need a bit of direction
> here and any help is appreciated. Thanks!
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