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<h2 class="title">WinCache Session Handler</h2>
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The WinCache session handler (available since WinCache 1.1.0) can be used to configure PHP to store the session data in shared memory session cache.
Using shared memory instead of the default file session storage helps improve performance of PHP applications
that store large amount of data in session objects. Wincache session cache uses file-backed shared memory, which ensures
that the session data is not lost during recycling of IIS application pools.
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To configure PHP to use WinCache session handler set the <var class="filename">php.ini</var> setting
<a href="session.configuration.html#ini.session.save-handler" class="link">session.save_handler</a> to <em class="emphasis">wincache</em>.
By default the Windows temporary file location is used for storing the
session data. To change the location of the session file use
<a href="session.configuration.html#ini.session.save-path" class="link">session.save_path</a> directive.
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<p><strong>Example #1 Enabling WinCache session handler</strong></p>
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<div class="php.inicode"><pre class="php.inicode">session.save_handler = wincache
session.save_path = C:\inetpub\temp\session\</pre>
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