configuration directives
- Manage session storage media
Determine how session information is stored
session.save_handler = files (flat file) mm (shared memory) sqlite (SQLite database) user (custom)
- set session file path
If session.save_handler = files, then session.save_path must point to the storage directory
- Automatically enable sessions
session.auto_start = 1 enable auto-start session
- set session name
session.name = string set session name
- Choose between cookies or URL rewriting
session.use_cookies = 0 will use URL rewriting
- Automatic URL rewriting
- Set the lifetime of the session cookie
- Valid URL path to set session cookie
- Set cache direction for session-enabled pages
handle session
- start a session
- destroy session
- Set and get session ID
- Create and delete session variables
- Encoding and decoding session data
- Actual session handling instance
- Automatically log in as the returning user
- Generate an index of recently viewed documents
Create a custom session handler
- Assume custom session functions to PHP logic
- Using a custom MySQL-based session handler