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JSession

Methods

Visibility	Method name	Description
public	__construct	Constructor.
public	__destruct	Session object destructor.
public	clear	Unset data from the session store.
public	close	Writes session data and ends session.
public	destroy	Frees all session variables and destroys all data registered to a session.
public	fork	Create a new session and copy variables from the old one.
public	get	Get data from the session store.
public	getExpire	Get expiration time in minutes.
public	getId	Get session id.
public	getName	Get session name.
public	getState	Get current state of session.
public	getToken	Get a session token, if a token isn't set yet one will be generated.
public	has	Check whether data exists in the session store.
public	hasToken	Method to determine if a token exists in the session.
public	isNew	Check whether this session is currently created.
public	restart	Restart an expired or locked session.
public	set	Set data into the session store.
public static	getFormToken	Method to determine a hash for anti-spoofing variable names.
public static	getInstance	Returns the global Session object, only creating it if it doesn't already exist.
public static	getStores	Get the session handlers.
protected	_createId	Create a session id.
protected	_createToken	Create a token-string.
protected	_setCookieParams	Set session cookie parameters.
protected	_setCounter	Set counter of session usage.
protected	_setOptions	Set additional session options.
protected	_setTimers	Set the session timers.
protected	_start	Start a session.
protected	_validate	Do some checks for security reason.

• Defined in libraries/joomla/session/session.php
• Extends JObject

Importing

jimport( 'joomla.session.session' );

See also

• JSession source code on BitBucket
• Subpackage Session
• Other versions of JSession