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Hey all, Am beginning to build a large application and i was wondering which Laravel Session driver would be better between Database and File based. Am talking in terms of security and as well as speed. I definitely wont want to use Cookies or Array and havent considered Memcache yet.
So what do you advise?
Either are probably fine for most applications. If you are planning on scaling to multiple servers you will not want to use the file driver.
I personally typically use the "cookie" driver because I don't store much data in session and it requires zero additional storage mechanisms.
Thanks Taylor. Would go with the file driver.
Why so averse to using cookie driver @rot_ogunj ?
@csuarez Seriously? It has been 2 months. :D
@Ozan that is ok. Conversations flow differently on the internet. He'll get a notice and if he chooses to respond, I'll get a notice with Laravel's awesome Flash service provider:)
:D
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