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Concurrent PHP Sessions

Sessions in PHP are handled by the $_SESSION superglobal and several session_*() functions. One thing you may not realise about PHP sessions though, is that natively they are blocking to make them thread-safe. What this means is that once a PHP session is started, nothing else can work with that session until it is closed. [… Read More]