Developing Custom PHP Sessions

Developing Custom PHP Sessions - Conclusion
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You may have noticed that our sessions can be improved upon greatly. I've shown you one of the easiest ways of creating and maintaining your own sessions. If you are planning to improve the code seen in this article, then here are some ideas for expansion:

• Instead of using a cookie to pass the key you can configure Apache to pass with folders. For example, www.domain.com/members/5i1hk6/welcome.php.
• What if the user closed his/her browser before logging out? You may want to set up a cron job to run every five minutes to remove inactive sessions to keep the database clean.
• You could also build an administration area to quickly configure your sessions and see who’s online and possibly kick them off whenever you desire.

You could have many more ideas to improve the sessions and I encourage you to try anything you wish now that you know how to build the sessions. Please do post in the forums to let us know about your ideas.

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