On 5/27/11 6:11 PM, Aaron Luman wrote: > The question is, is storing this object in the $_SESSION array good > practice? Or is it better to pull the data fresh from the database > on each page load?
As long as your $_SESSION array doesn't get huge, it's generally better to keep it in the session. The exception would be if the information is likely to change in the database during the session, and if it matters if the user has the most up-to-date information. An alternative would be to use something like HandlerSocket to get the information out of the database in memcache-like speed. Then you'd always have the most up-to-date information, but the catch would be how long it takes to build the object from the data. Steve _______________________________________________ UPHPU mailing list [email protected] http://uphpu.org/mailman/listinfo/uphpu IRC: #uphpu on irc.freenode.net
