Session Proxy
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Session Proxy
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Session proxy is not a module: it is a replacement for Drupal core session handling API.
It acts as a proxy between fixed core procedural API towards a fully object oriented, more flexible and easier to extend session management API.
Basically, it strongly encapsulate the original API, separating user management against raw session storage: by using it you are able to implement any session storage engine (memcache, redis, ... ) without handling cookies and by users yourself.
Provided session engines
It ships three different session managing implementations:
- Database session handling: core default, ported to the object oriented API. It comes with an additional SQL query done more than core session.inc default implementation due to the API strong encapsulation.
- Native PHP session handling: by selecting this session management mode, you explicitely remove any core session management, and let PHP manage it. This can be useful if you intend to use low-level PHP extensions, such as Memcache or PhpRedis to handle session in PHP low-level layer instead of core. This allow to use any PHP native session storage to work gracefully: some of them are high performance.
- Cache based storage engine: Using the same session handling than core, but deporting raw session storage into a cache backend instance. You can use any already-functionning cache backend to store sessions. Sessions will use their own bin, and won't be cleared at cache clear all time.