Question

What is the quickest way to get a large amount of data (think golf) and the most efficient (think performance) to get a large amount of data from a MySQL database to a session without having to continue doing what I already have:

$sql = 'SELECT * FROM users WHERE username='' . mysql_escape_string($_POST['username']) . '' AND password='' . mysql_escape_string(md5($_POST['password'])) . '''; $result = mysql_query($sql, $link) or die('There was an error while trying to get your information.\n<!--\n' . mysql_error($link) . '\n-->'); if(mysql_num_rows($result) < 1)  {     $_SESSION['username'] = $_POST['username'];     redirect('index.php?p=signup');  } $_SESSION['id'] = mysql_result($result, '0', 'id'); $_SESSION['fName'] = mysql_result($result, '0', 'fName'); $_SESSION['lName'] = mysql_result($result, '0', 'lName'); ... 

And before anyone asks yes I do really need to ‘SELECT

Edit: Yes, I am sanitizing the data, so that there can be no SQL injection, that is further up in the code.

Answer 1

I came up with this and it appears to work.

while($row = mysql_fetch_assoc($result))  {     $_SESSION = array_merge_recursive($_SESSION, $row);  }