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Chapter 11. Sessions and Data Persistence > Storing Sessions in a Database
Recipe 11.4. Storing Sessions in a Database
11.4.1. Problem
You want to store session data in a database instead of in files. If multiple web servers all have access to the same database, the session data is then mirrored across all the web servers.
11.4.2. Solution
Use a class or a set of functions in conjunction with the session_set_save_handler( ) function to define database-aware routines for session management. For example, use PEAR’s HTTP_Session package for convenient database session storage:
