More efficient Redis session handle

[filisko]

Hi guys,

I just read the "Flexible session management" part of this Redis official post:

• https://redis.io/blog/redis-8-0-m01-released-one-redis-for-every-use-case/

This is totally true:

Sessions are traditionally modeled as strings or hashes. While string serialization and deserialization offer a naive instant solution, session managers must extract and store the entire session from the database, causing extraneous data processing that leads to suboptimal performance and data transfer costs.

Storing session data as hashes represents a logical evolution.

What do you think about making those changes?

Thanks!

[colinmollenhour]

Very interesting! Unfortunately, I think PHP's session handler design is very counter to this.. There is no mechanism to fetch fields and update fields on demand with $_SESSION.. If you can build your app to not use $_SESSION at all and instead use Redis exclusively then I think it would work amazingly well. In that case you don't need the library though. I don't really see a way to take full advantage of that with the sessionhandler interface but interested in ideas.