How can developers effectively manage and maintain PHP sessions in a large-scale web application?

Developers can effectively manage and maintain PHP sessions in a large-scale web application by setting session save path to a dedicated directory, using session cookies securely, and periodically cleaning up expired sessions to prevent storage overflow. 

// Set session save path to a dedicated directory
session_save_path('/path/to/session/directory');

// Use secure session cookies
ini_set('session.cookie_httponly', 1);
ini_set('session.cookie_secure', 1);

// Clean up expired sessions
ini_set('session.gc_probability', 1);
ini_set('session.gc_divisor', 100);
ini_set('session.gc_maxlifetime', 3600);

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Session management PHP sessions scalability security session handling

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