Is this really the way commercial and bigger sites handle sessions? Does anyone have any experience in saving session info to a database?

Also, there is a problem with the logic for __set in usersession.phpm. The __set function does not check for the existence of the session variable before inserting into the database table. Every time a variable is set, a duplicate record is inserted into the database table. For example, using the test PHP script for TESTVAR = 'foo', I refreshed the page several times and the session_variable table had several records for foo under this session.

From memory two changes need to be made to usersession but dont have the code here to do a diff ( will try later ). The first two instances of $maxlifetime need changed to $session_lifespan (I think - I'm only learning too).

The code I have only creates one session, and I thinl this is what I changed to fix it. My Problem however is getting PHP5 to compile on Suse 9.1 with Postgressql support. :-(