Re: Storing PHP 5.3 sessions into PostgreSQL 8.4

On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 10:53 AM, Alexander Farber <
alexander(dot)farber(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I'm using CentOS 6.0 Linux 64 bit with the stock packages:
>
> # rpm -qa|grep php
> php-cli-5.3.2-6.el6_0.1.x86_64
> php-5.3.2-6.el6_0.1.x86_64
> php-xml-5.3.2-6.el6_0.1.x86_64
> php-pgsql-5.3.2-6.el6_0.1.x86_64
> php-pear-1.9.0-2.el6.noarch
> php-pdo-5.3.2-6.el6_0.1.x86_64
> php-common-5.3.2-6.el6_0.1.x86_64
>
> # rpm -qa|grep postgres
> postgresql-devel-8.4.7-1.el6_0.1.x86_64
> postgresql-docs-8.4.7-1.el6_0.1.x86_64
> postgresql-libs-8.4.7-1.el6_0.1.x86_64
> postgresql-8.4.7-1.el6_0.1.x86_64
> postgresql-server-8.4.7-1.el6_0.1.x86_64
>
> and would like to change my own PHP script from using
> $_SERVER['REMOTE_USER'] to using $_SESSION,
> but don't have any experience with PHP sessions yet.
>
> I'd like the (quite extensive) user data to be stored into
> the PostgreSQL and only save a "user id" in $_SESSION.
>
> However the web page
> http://www.php.net/manual/en/session-pgsql.installation.php
> says "This extension is considered unmaintained and dead".
>
> Does anybody please have any advice what to do here?
>
> Maybe I can save session data into the db myself (and how)?
>
> Thank you
> Alex
>
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I have attached some SQL and PHP that we use to store sessions in the
database, its based off
http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.session-set-save-handler.php
I also in our nightly maintenance script I delete sessions older than 24
hours as some times php doesn't GC sessions right under CGI.
delete from sessions where ts < (now() - '24 hours'::interval);

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Adam Cornett