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A question on Sessions


mostafatalebi

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Hello everybody

 

I'm developing a website. This website neither uses framework nor uses CMS, and I'm going totally bare with PHP. My question is that, is it ok to go with simple $_SESSION['username'] variable or for better performance (and of course more secure environment) I can go with some methods of encryption? Can anyone help me please. I want to see if there is a proper way of securing sessions.

 

thanks in advance

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Simple sessions is fine. There is no need to do any encryption of the session data. For performance you could try using a session handler that uses memcache or similar rather than the default file-based handler.

 

As far as securing sessions goes, read up on things like session hijacking / session fixation. If you will be on shared hosting, you'll also want to change the session save path to something under your directory rather than the system default.

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