How to store "custom session data" in sessions table?

[eluser]llbbl[/eluser]
its usually not a big deal, storing them in the cookie as long as you don't store a bunch of stuff. you might try encrypting the cookie if your worried about cross site cookie hax.

if you store it in the database, you will still need to set the cookie with the session key, so your going to be using cookies one way or another. setting the cookies helps prevent things like people logging on with different computers in a network, so like you could use your coworkers account if you could successfully duplicate his user agent.