Sessions, Paths in PHP 5

triapply posted this at 02:14 — 14th July 2006.

Joined: Sep 2005

Hi everyone,

I have a question re: working with sessions in PHP 5.

I am aware that a call to

<?php
session_start();
?>

is required before I'm able to manipulate SESSION variables.
This works perfectly under PHP 4.*

Problem: In PHP 5, I run into access problems with the default tmp path (Access Denied, etc)

After some googling, I found that in PHP 5, I have to manually set the session.save.path variable with this:

<?php
session_save_path('/abs_dir_to_my_home/custom_tmp_path');
?>

My question: Is there a better way to do this? Because now the session entries are saved in a directory on my webspace and I have to manually clean it up once in a while.

I have a funny feeling that I'm running around in circles when there is a much simpler way.

Can anyone help me? Thanks!

Busy posted this at 10:55 — 14th July 2006.

He has: 6,151 posts

Joined: May 2001

I haven't used much PHP5 but the idea of a session is for a session only and should be destoryed (automatically) at the end of the session - when browser is closed or session timed out. If the sessions do not expire then that can be a major security issue.

check out
http://www.phpbuilder.com/board/archive/index.php/t-10285731.html
and
http://php.net/session