I’ve been reading about php sessions and someone said that sessions can lock if a race condition is created, like a double form submission. I don’t know what the guy is babbling about but i do wonder if i should be using transactions when i am interacting with a database. For example, my login script. I’ve changed the pdo to work within a transaction. The code works and i am able to log in but is this correct for this situation? i know that we should use a transaction to handle any corruption or error so that we can implement a rollback. I am just wondering if there could be a problem with sessions that could be solved by using a transaction for the db?
Transaction are used with a purpose, and I don’t think what you are doing qualifies.
So, an example would be a banking transaction. I send you money.
try
start transaction
remove money from account A
add money to account B
commit transaction
catch
rollback transaction
The purpose it to revert changes if something goes wrong. This is a very simplified example. So, with what I do, Machines complete work and update multiple systems. If out of 9 system updates, #8 fails, that means all the records need to be reverted. Otherwise, data is corrupt. (And yes there are ways to do transactions across systems)
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Thank you @astonecipher, i have a better understanding of the matter. Very nice example too.
I removed the transaction code and i also followed the advice of phdr and removed the try catch block from my login. I think that now, with your guidance and the guidance of Jim and phdr, that my login script is becoming better.
Thank you 