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Session Handling
Introduction
Installing/Configuring
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Installation
Runtime Configuration
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Passing the Session ID
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Sessions and Security
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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
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