Is there an equivalent of DynamoDB on Azure as a PHP session Handler-CodePudding

Is there a equivalent of DynamoDB on Azure as a PHP session Handler? I found some very old articles online suggesting to use Azure Table Storage but it doesn't seem to work anymore. (https://dzone.com/articles/handling-php-sessions-windows). Thank you very much!

CodePudding user response：

Is there a equivalent of DynamoDB on Azure as a PHP session Handler?

As suggested by Oury Ba, adding gist as a community wiki to help community members who might have a similar question:

For session handling, you can use Azure Cache for Redis as a PHP session cache, specify the connection string to your Azure Cache for Redis instance in session.save_path

For example:

session.save_path = "tcp://mycache.redis.cache.windows.net:6379?auth=<url encoded primary or secondary key here>";

You can refer to Azure Cache for Redis development FAQs and PHP Session handler

CodePudding user response：

You can also use Azure table storage for session management. Assuming the table 'sessions' exists, this code works for me (using express-session as middleware):

const session = require('express-session');
const AzureTablesStoreFactory = require('connect-azuretables')(session);

const app = express();

const options = { table: 'sessions', sessionTimeOut: 30}; 
app.use(session({ 
  store: AzureTablesStoreFactory.create(options), 
  secret: process.env.SESSION_SECRET,
  resave: false,
  saveUninitialized: false,
  rolling: true,
  cookie: {maxAge: 600000}
}));