PHP Session library

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PHP library for handling sessions.

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• Requirements
• Installation
• Available Methods
• Quick Start
• Usage
• Tests
• TODO
• Contribute
• Repository
• License
• Copyright

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Requirements

This library is supported by PHP versions 5.6 or higher.

Installation

The preferred way to install this extension is through Composer.

To install PHP Session library, simply:

$ composer require Josantonius/Session

The previous command will only install the necessary files, if you prefer to download the entire source code you can use:

$ composer require Josantonius/Session --prefer-source

You can also clone the complete repository with Git:

$ git clone https://github.com/Josantonius/PHP-Session.git

Or install it manually:

Download Session.php:

$ wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Josantonius/PHP-Session/master/src/Session.php

Available Methods

Available methods in this library:

- Set prefix for sessions:

Session::setPrefix($prefix);

Attribute	Description	Type	Required	Default
$prefix	Prefix for sessions.	object	Yes

# Return (boolean)

- Get sessions prefix:

Session::getPrefix();

# Return (string) → sessions prefix

- Start session if session has not started:

Session::init($lifeTime);

Attribute	Description	Type	Required	Default
$lifeTime	Life time during session.	int	No	0

# Return (boolean)

- Add value to a session:

Session::set($key, $value);

Attribute	Description	Type	Required	Default
$key	Session name.	string	Yes
$value	The data to save.	mixed	No	false

# Return (boolean true)

- Extract session item, delete session item and finally return the item:

Session::pull($key);

Attribute	Description	Type	Required	Default
$key	Item to extract.	string	Yes

# Return (mixed|null) → return item or null when key does not exists

- Get item from session:

Session::get($key, $secondkey);

Attribute	Description	Type	Required	Default
$key	Item to look for in session.	string	No	''
$secondkey	If used then use as a second key.	string	boolean	No

# Return (mixed|null) → return item or null when key does not exists

- Get session id:

Session::id();

# Return (string) → the session id or empty

- Regenerate session_id:

Session::regenerate();

# Return (string) → the new session id

- Empties and destroys the session:

Session::destroy($key, $prefix);

Attribute	Description	Type	Required	Default
$key	Session ID to destroy.	string	No	''
$prefix	If true clear all sessions for current prefix.	boolean	No	false

# Return (boolean)

Quick Start

To use this library with Composer:

require __DIR__ . '/vendor/autoload.php';

use Josantonius\Session\Session;

Or If you installed it manually, use it:

require_once __DIR__ . '/Session.php';

use Josantonius\Session\Session;

Usage

Example of use for this library:

- Set prefix for sessions:

Session::setPrefix('_prefix');

- Get sessions prefix:

Session::getPrefix();

- Start session:

Session::init();

- Start session by setting the session duration:

Session::init(3600);

- Add value to a session:

Session::set('name', 'Joseph');

- Add multiple value to sessions:

$data = [
    'name'     => 'Joseph',
    'age'      => '28',
    'business' => ['name' => 'Company'],
];

Session::set($data);

- Extract session item, delete session item and finally return the item:

Session::pull('age');

- Get item from session:

Session::get('name');

- Get item from session entering two indexes:

Session::get('business', 'name');

- Return the session array:

Session::get();

- Get session id:

Session::id();

- Regenerate session_id:

Session::regenerate();

- Destroys one key session:

Session::destroy('name');

- Destroys sessions by prefix:

Session::destroy('ses_', true);

- Destroys all sessions:

Session::destroy();

Tests

To run tests you just need composer and to execute the following:

$ git clone https://github.com/Josantonius/PHP-Session.git

$ cd PHP-Session

$ composer install

Run unit tests with PHPUnit:

$ composer phpunit

Run PSR2 code standard tests with PHPCS:

$ composer phpcs

Run PHP Mess Detector tests to detect inconsistencies in code style:

$ composer phpmd

Run all previous tests:

$ composer tests

☑ TODO

• Add new feature.
• Improve tests.
• Improve documentation.
• Refactor code for disabled code style rules. See phpmd.xml and .php_cs.dist.
• Add tests for session duration in the init() method.

Contribute

If you would like to help, please take a look at the list of issues or the To Do checklist.

Pull requests

• Fork and clone.
• Run the command composer install to install the dependencies. This will also install the dev dependencies.
• Run the command composer fix to excute code standard fixers.
• Run the tests.
• Create a branch, commit, push and send me a pull request.

Thank you to all the people who already contributed to this project!

peter279k	chrisrowley14

Repository

The file structure from this repository was created with PHP-Skeleton.

License

This project is licensed under MIT license. See the LICENSE file for more info.

Copyright

2017 - 2018 Josantonius, josantonius.com

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