Session Handling

Table of Contents

• Introduction
• Installing/Configuring
  • Requirements
  • Installation
  • Runtime Configuration
• Predefined Constants
• Examples
  • Basic usage
  • Passing the Session ID
  • Custom Session Handlers
• Session Upload Progress
• Sessions and Security
  • Session Management Basics
  • Securing Session INI Settings
• Session Functions
  • session_abort — Discard session array changes and finish session
  • session_cache_expire — Get and/or set current cache expire
  • session_cache_limiter — Get and/or set the current cache limiter
  • session_commit — Alias of session_write_close
  • session_create_id — Create new session id
  • session_decode — Decodes session data from a session encoded string
  • session_destroy — Destroys all data registered to a session
  • session_encode — Encodes the current session data as a session encoded string
  • session_gc — Perform session data garbage collection
  • session_get_cookie_params — Get the session cookie parameters
  • session_id — Get and/or set the current session id
  • session_module_name — Get and/or set the current session module
  • session_name — Get and/or set the current session name
  • session_regenerate_id — Update the current session id with a newly generated one
  • session_register_shutdown — Session shutdown function
  • session_reset — Re-initialize session array with original values
  • session_save_path — Get and/or set the current session save path
  • session_set_cookie_params — Set the session cookie parameters
  • session_set_save_handler — Sets user-level session storage functions
  • session_start — Start new or resume existing session
  • session_status — Returns the current session status
  • session_unset — Free all session variables
  • session_write_close — Write session data and end session
• SessionHandler — The SessionHandler class
  • SessionHandler::close — Close the session
  • SessionHandler::create_sid — Return a new session ID
  • SessionHandler::destroy — Destroy a session
  • SessionHandler::gc — Cleanup old sessions
  • SessionHandler::open — Initialize session
  • SessionHandler::read — Read session data
  • SessionHandler::write — Write session data
• SessionHandlerInterface — The SessionHandlerInterface class
  • SessionHandlerInterface::close — Close the session
  • SessionHandlerInterface::destroy — Destroy a session
  • SessionHandlerInterface::gc — Cleanup old sessions
  • SessionHandlerInterface::open — Initialize session
  • SessionHandlerInterface::read — Read session data
  • SessionHandlerInterface::write — Write session data
• SessionIdInterface — The SessionIdInterface interface
  • SessionIdInterface::create_sid — Create session ID
• SessionUpdateTimestampHandlerInterface — The SessionUpdateTimestampHandlerInterface interface
  • SessionUpdateTimestampHandlerInterface::updateTimestamp — Update timestamp
  • SessionUpdateTimestampHandlerInterface::validateId — Validate ID