Comments on: Custom PHP Session Class

By: Jonny

Jonny — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 10:35:40 +0000

Hi Stephen,

Any idea if the post on Richard Willars site can be found else where? It seems to have been removed.

Thanks,
Jonny

By: Siggy

Siggy — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 11:01:20 +0000

Hi,

i have the same problem and in my case, the data field is being cleared as soon as :

$session = new Session();

is called. For the rest, everything is exactly as above.

Is there any server setting that has to change? I’m pretty much pulling my hair out.

Thanks for any help.

By: Chuck

Chuck — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 04:34:24 +0000

Hello there, I am trying out your script and it works fine except when I look on my server for the actual session file it’s no where to be found.

Without using your class running a basic php session will create the session file as expected.

Is this class disabling a physical file on the server ?

By: Stephen McIntyre

Stephen McIntyre — Thu, 24 Nov 2011 19:03:30 +0000

It was a placeholder for the session ID should you want to add a function to fetch it outside of the class.

It is however currently redundant, so I’ve removed it from the class. Thanks.

By: Stephen McIntyre

Stephen McIntyre — Thu, 24 Nov 2011 18:55:16 +0000

The original post from Richard did this well. http://www.richardwillars.com/articles/php/storing-sessions-in-the-database/

By: gersom

gersom — Wed, 21 Sep 2011 17:39:45 +0000

I would like to you this, but I am curently using MySQL instead of MySQLi. I also use a database handler class. Is it wise to rewrite your class for this purpuse, or is it better to switch to MySQLi ?

By: Jared

Jared — Thu, 28 Jul 2011 02:07:23 +0000

What is $id used for – I see it referenced in the read method, but can not see it actually being used.

By: Stephen McIntyre

Stephen McIntyre — Tue, 19 Jul 2011 19:29:08 +0000

Thanks, I’ve updated the class.

By: Freddy

Freddy — Tue, 19 Jul 2011 16:35:28 +0000

One note. On the clean function, you’re using the column sesh_last_accessed rather than just last_accessed

By: Freddy

Freddy — Fri, 15 Jul 2011 19:24:11 +0000

Good stuff, it’s a good base class to start with and modify until something custom you really need(if need be of course).

The main change I did when using it is convert it so that it’s a singleton class, this way no matter at which depth of the application you’re writing, you always get the same session object throughout the lifetime of that one script. That way it makes it easier to not have to pass around the session object the whole time.

Just thought I’d throw that in there.

Thanks again