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session_status

(PHP 5 >= 5.4.0, PHP 7, PHP 8)

session_statusReturns the current session status

Descrizione

session_status(): int

session_status() is used to return the current session status.

Elenco dei parametri

Questa funzione non contiene parametri.

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sasi dot viragelet at gmail dot co
9 years ago
Maybe depending on PHP settings, but if return values are not the above, then go for this:
_DISABLED = 0
_NONE = 1
_ACTIVE = 2
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info at eurocron dot de
5 years ago
Use always session_status(), to check if a session is already started and active.
if(session_status() !== PHP_SESSION_ACTIVE) session_start();
or
if(session_status() === PHP_SESSION_NONE) session_start();

Don't use
if(!isset($_SESSION)) session_start();
or
if(session_id() === "") session_start();

They will not work properly after a call to session_write_close().
Both functions will continue to report, that the session exists.
And this is right, you can read from $_SESSION, but if you want to write,
you need session_start() again.

As a shorthand you can use
@session_start()
with the @ at the beginning to suppress the
PHP notice "A session had already been started - ignoring session_start()"

As stated in the manual for session_start(), a second call will do no harm,
it will be simply ignored. But you need the @, if you don't want to get the notice.
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coder dot ua at gmail dot com
11 years ago
Universal function for checking session status.

<?php
/**
* @return bool
*/
function is_session_started()
{
if (
php_sapi_name() !== 'cli' ) {
if (
version_compare(phpversion(), '5.4.0', '>=') ) {
return
session_status() === PHP_SESSION_ACTIVE ? TRUE : FALSE;
} else {
return
session_id() === '' ? FALSE : TRUE;
}
}
return
FALSE;
}

// Example
if ( is_session_started() === FALSE ) session_start();
?>
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polygon dot co dot in at gmail dot com
3 years ago
Note session_status() is for file based session only.

DB based session status needs to have custom function based on table structure.
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php at pointpro dot nl
11 years ago
The advice of ive_insomnia at live dot com should be taken with great care.

First of all, while his use case for session_status is valid, a simpler way to avoid the warning is:

<?php
if (!isset($_SESSION)) { session_start(); }
?>

The example of session_status uses the raw values of constants (2 in this case) created specifically for the purpose of not having to use magic numbers.

Better code would be:

<?php
if (session_status() !== PHP_SESSION_ACTIVE) {session_start();}
?>

The same can be done using

<?
if (session_id() === "") { session_start(); }
?>

The use of this function is lies more towards status management: change the behavior of a script when sessions are disabled altogether, for example.
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ayon at hyurl dot com
8 years ago
This is how the session_status() works:
<?php
function session_status(){
if(!
extension_loaded('session')){
return
0;
}elseif(!
file_exists(session_save_path().'/sess_'.session_id()){
return
1;
}else{
return
2;
}
}
?>
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Ben (aocool at msn d0t com)
8 years ago
Just another function to determine whether the session has already started:

function is_session_started () {
return function_exists ( 'session_status' ) ? ( PHP_SESSION_ACTIVE == session_status () ) : ( ! empty ( session_id () ) );
}
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Ollea
10 years ago
If you started and closed a session then test ( session_id() === '' ) to check if a session is active it won't work, session_id() returns an ID even if the session is closed.

Anybody knows another way before PHP 5.4 to check if a session is really not currently active ?
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