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3.7 KiB
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131 lines
3.7 KiB
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John,
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I have been an extremely satisfied ADODB user for several years now.
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To give you something back for all your hard work, I've spent the last 3
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days rewriting the adodb-session.php code.
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What's New
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Here's a list of the new code's benefits:
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* Combines the functionality of the three files:
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adodb-session.php
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adodb-session-clob.php
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adodb-cryptsession.php
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each with very similar functionality, into a single file adodb-session.php.
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This will ease maintenance and support issues.
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* Supports multiple encryption and compression schemes.
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Currently, we support:
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MD5Crypt (crypt.inc.php)
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MCrypt
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Secure (Horde's emulation of MCrypt, if MCrypt module is not available.)
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GZip
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BZip2
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These can be stacked, so if you want to compress and then encrypt your
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session data, it's easy.
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Also, the built-in MCrypt functions will be *much* faster, and more secure,
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than the MD5Crypt code.
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* adodb-session.php contains a single class ADODB_Session that encapsulates
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all functionality.
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This eliminates the use of global vars and defines (though they are
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supported for backwards compatibility).
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* All user defined parameters are now static functions in the ADODB_Session
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class.
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New parameters include:
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* encryptionKey(): Define the encryption key used to encrypt the session.
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Originally, it was a hard coded string.
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* persist(): Define if the database will be opened in persistent mode.
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Originally, the user had to call adodb_sess_open().
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* dataFieldName(): Define the field name used to store the session data, as
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'DATA' appears to be a reserved word in the following cases:
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ANSI SQL
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IBM DB2
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MS SQL Server
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Postgres
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SAP
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* filter(): Used to support multiple, simulataneous encryption/compression
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schemes.
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* Debug support is improved thru _rsdump() function, which is called after
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every database call.
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What's Fixed
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The new code includes several bug fixes and enhancements:
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* sesskey is compared in BINARY mode for MySQL, to avoid problems with
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session keys that differ only by case.
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Of course, the user should define the sesskey field as BINARY, to
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correctly fix this problem, otherwise performance will suffer.
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* In ADODB_Session::gc(), if $expire_notify is true, the multiple DELETES in
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the original code have been optimized to a single DELETE.
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* In ADODB_Session::destroy(), since "SELECT expireref, sesskey FROM $table
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WHERE sesskey = $qkey" will only return a single value, we don't loop on the
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result, we simply process the row, if any.
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* We close $rs after every use.
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What's the Same
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I know backwards compatibility is *very* important to you. Therefore, the
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new code is 100% backwards compatible.
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If you like my code, but don't "trust" it's backwards compatible, maybe we
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offer it as beta code, in a new directory for a release or two?
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What's To Do
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I've vascillated over whether to use a single function to get/set
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parameters:
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$user = ADODB_Session::user(); // get
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ADODB_Session::user($user); // set
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or to use separate functions (which is the PEAR/Java way):
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$user = ADODB_Session::getUser();
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ADODB_Session::setUser($user);
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I've chosen the former as it's makes for a simpler API, and reduces the
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amount of code, but I'd be happy to change it to the latter.
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Also, do you think the class should be a singleton class, versus a static
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class?
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Let me know if you find this code useful, and will be including it in the
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next release of ADODB.
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If so, I will modify the current documentation to detail the new
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functionality. To that end, what file(s) contain the documentation? Please
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send them to me if they are not publically available.
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Also, if there is *anything* in the code that you like to see changed, let
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me know.
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Thanks,
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Ross
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