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Defined in

libraries/joomla/session/session.php

Methods

Method name	Description
__construct	Constructor
__destruct	Session object destructor
getState	Get current state of session
getExpire	Get expiration time in minutes
getToken	Get a session token, if a token isn't set yet one will be generated.
hasToken	Method to determine if a token exists in the session. If not the session will be set to expired
getName	Get session name
getId	Get session id
getStores	Get the session handlers
isNew	Check whether this session is currently created
get	Get data from the session store
set	Set data into the session store.
has	Check wheter data exists in the session store
clear	Unset data from the session store
destroy	Frees all session variables and destroys all data registered to a session
restart	Restart an expired or locked session.
fork	Create a new session and copy variables from the old one
close	Writes session data and ends session
getInstance	Returns the global Session object, only creating it if it doesn't already exist.
getFormToken	Method to determine a hash for anti-spoofing variable names

Importing

jimport( 'joomla.session.session' );