JFactory/getSession

Returns a reference to the global session object, only creating it if it doesn't already exist. The object returned will be of type JSession.

object JSession getSession( $options )

where:

Argument	Data type	Description	Default
$options	array	Array of options. See below for possible options.	array()

The $options array may contain any of the following entries:

Name	Description	Default
name	Name of the session.
id	Unique ID of the session.
expire	Expiry date and time.
security	Comma-separated list of security options (see JSession).

The following code gets the current session then sets the value of the session variable 'myvar' to 'helloworld'.

$session =& JFactory::getSession();
$session->set( 'myvar', 'helloworld' );

The session variable can be retrieved later in a similar way.

$session =& JFactory::getSession();
echo 'Session variable myvar has value: ' . $session->get( 'myvar', 'empty' );