Class Session

__construct()source public

__construct( array $config [] )

Constructor.

Configuration:

• timeout: The time in minutes the session should be valid for.
• cookiePath: The url path for which session cookie is set. Maps to the session.cookie_path php.ini config. Defaults to base path of app.
• ini: A list of php.ini directives to change before the session start.
• handler: An array containing at least the class key. To be used as the session engine for persisting data. The rest of the keys in the array will be passed as the configuration array for the engine. You can set the class key to an already instantiated session handler object.

Parameters

array $config optional []

The Configuration to apply to this session object

_defaultConfig()source protected static

_defaultConfig( string $name )

Get one of the prebaked default session configurations.

Parameters

string $name

Config name.

Returns

boolean|array

_hasSession()source protected

_hasSession( )

Returns whether a session exists

Returns

boolean

_overwrite()source protected

_overwrite( array $old , array $new )

Used to write new data to _SESSION, since PHP doesn't like us setting the _SESSION var itself.

Parameters

array $old

Set of old variables => values

array $new

New set of variable => value

_timedOut()source protected

_timedOut( )

Returns true if the session is no longer valid because the last time it was accessed was after the configured timeout.

Returns

boolean

check()source public

check( string|null $name null )

Returns true if given variable name is set in session.

Parameters

string|null $name optional null

Variable name to check for

Returns

boolean
True if variable is there

clear()source public

clear( boolean $renew false )

Clears the session.

Optionally it also clears the session id and renews the session.

Parameters

boolean $renew optional false

If session should be renewed, as well. Defaults to false.

consume()source public

consume( string $name )

Reads and deletes a variable from session.

Parameters

string $name

The key to read and remove (or a path as sent to Hash.extract).

Returns

mixed

The value of the session variable, null if session not available, session not started, or provided name not found in the session.

create()source public static

create( array $sessionConfig [] )

Returns a new instance of a session after building a configuration bundle for it. This function allows an options array which will be used for configuring the session and the handler to be used. The most important key in the configuration array is defaults, which indicates the set of configurations to inherit from, the possible defaults are:

• php: just use session as configured in php.ini
• cache: Use the CakePHP caching system as an storage for the session, you will need to pass the config key with the name of an already configured Cache engine.
• database: Use the CakePHP ORM to persist and manage sessions. By default this requires a table in your database named sessions or a model key in the configuration to indicate which Table object to use.
• cake: Use files for storing the sessions, but let CakePHP manage them and decide where to store them.

The full list of options follows:

• defaults: either 'php', 'database', 'cache' or 'cake' as explained above.
• handler: An array containing the handler configuration
• ini: A list of php.ini directives to set before the session starts.
• timeout: The time in minutes the session should stay active

Parameters

array $sessionConfig optional []

Session config.

Returns

Cake\Network\Session

See

\Cake\Network\Session::__construct()

delete()source public

delete( string $name )

Removes a variable from session.

Parameters

string $name

Session variable to remove

destroy()source public

destroy( )

Helper method to destroy invalid sessions.

engine()source public

engine( string|SessionHandlerInterface|null $class null , array $options [] )

Sets the session handler instance to use for this session. If a string is passed for the first argument, it will be treated as the class name and the second argument will be passed as the first argument in the constructor.

If an instance of a SessionHandlerInterface is provided as the first argument, the handler will be set to it.

If no arguments are passed it will return the currently configured handler instance or null if none exists.

Parameters

string|SessionHandlerInterface|null $class optional null

The session handler to use

array $options optional []

the options to pass to the SessionHandler constructor

Returns

SessionHandlerInterface|null

Throws

InvalidArgumentException

id()source public

id( string|null $id null )

Returns the session id. Calling this method will not auto start the session. You might have to manually assert a started session.

Passing an id into it, you can also replace the session id if the session has not already been started. Note that depending on the session handler, not all characters are allowed within the session id. For example, the file session handler only allows characters in the range a-z A-Z 0-9 , (comma) and - (minus).

Parameters

string|null $id optional null

Id to replace the current session id

Returns

string
Session id

options()source public

options( array $options )

Calls ini_set for each of the keys in $options and set them to the respective value in the passed array.

Example:

$session->options(['session.use_cookies' => 1]);

Parameters

array $options

Ini options to set.

Throws

RuntimeException
if any directive could not be set

read()source public

read( string|null $name null )

Returns given session variable, or all of them, if no parameters given.

Parameters

string|null $name optional null

The name of the session variable (or a path as sent to Hash.extract)

Returns

string|array|null

The value of the session variable, null if session not available, session not started, or provided name not found in the session.

renew()source public

renew( )

Restarts this session.

start()source public

start( )

Starts the Session.

Returns

boolean
True if session was started

Throws

RuntimeException
if the session was already started

started()source public

started( )

Determine if Session has already been started.

Returns

boolean
True if session has been started.

write()source public

write( string|array $name , mixed $value null )

Writes value to given session variable name.

Parameters

string|array $name

Name of variable

mixed $value optional null

Value to write

false