Re: [phpGroupWare-developers] Infolog behaves unpredictable with a certain number of entries and database stored sessions

[Dave Hall]

On Mon, 2007-04-23 at 13:44 +0200, Christian Rost wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> we discovered an unpredictable behavior in Infolog with databse stored
> session data and more than 20 displayed entries. For example, if ones
> going to add a new entry or to edit an existing one, it causes Infolog
> to reload and start from the beginning, which can lead to an infinite loop.
> 
> The cause is the amount of data Infolog and especially eTemplate are
> storing into the session. eTemplate stores each entry with it's whole
> content into a session array. If there are too many entries to display,
> the string [serialized array] gets too long to be stored completely.
> 
> 
> ##
> ## Solution / Bugfix
> ##
> The perfect solution will be to change the Infolog code so it does not
> store the whole data into a session array, but as you know Infolog is a
> beast to debug. So I've changed the fieldtype of [phpgw_app_sessions ->
> content] from "text" to "mediumtext" [MySQL].

An alternative workaround would be to use php4 sessions :)

Cheers

Dave