php sessions saving (to database?)

I'm making a wizard to add data to a mySQL database for users in php.
It ss a wizard using a session to store variables from page to page.
The user may not be able to finish the wizard (many reason for this).
Is there a way to store the session? Like serialize the session and
store it in the database so in the future the user can have a list of
incomplete work?

"SirPoonga" <sirpoonga@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> I'm making a wizard to add data to a mySQL database for users in php.
> It ss a wizard using a session to store variables from page to page.
> The user may not be able to finish the wizard (many reason for this).
> Is there a way to store the session? Like serialize the session and
> store it in the database so in the future the user can have a list of
> incomplete work?

if your host allows it, you can save sessions to the database by providing
your own session handlers. Anyway, it would be much better to store that
information somewhere else (related to user_id not the session_id) and not
in the session if anyhow possible. For security reasons, sessions should
expire after some time of inactivity, and for your purpose you would have to
make them eternal.

rush
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"rush" <pipa@rush.avalon.hr> wrote in message news:<bgjlh4$urj$1@ls219.htnet.hr>...
> "SirPoonga" <sirpoonga@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:67576b2b.0308031036.73d87525@posting.google.c om...
> > I'm making a wizard to add data to a mySQL database for users in php.
> > It ss a wizard using a session to store variables from page to page.
> > The user may not be able to finish the wizard (many reason for this).
> > Is there a way to store the session? Like serialize the session and
> > store it in the database so in the future the user can have a list of
> > incomplete work?
>
> if your host allows it, you can save sessions to the database by providing
> your own session handlers. Anyway, it would be much better to store that
> information somewhere else (related to user_id not the session_id) and not
> in the session if anyhow possible. For security reasons, sessions should
> expire after some time of inactivity, and for your purpose you would have to
> make them eternal.
>
> rush


It's my server I finally found server_encode(). That's all I
need, an easy way to store the variables so I can resume the wizard
where it left off.

errr, I meant session_encode()