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Reputation: 3737

PHP session_id regenerated on refresh

I am having problems with the session_id() that returns a new value every time on browser refresh/restart.

Read this post here but it doesn't solve the issue.I did all that was mentioned there - browser accepts cookies, permissions are set correctly, no param value is changed on sequential requests, etc.

Could this be refered to not using the session_name() or session_set_cookie_params() correctly? Or maybe it is the initial configuration that should be fine-tuned?

public static function init_session($name = FALSE, $lifetime = 10, $path = '/', $domain = FALSE, $secure = FALSE)   
{
    if (empty($name))
    {
        $name = APP_NAME;
    }

    if (empty($domain))
    {
        $domain = BASE_URL;
    }

    session_name($name);

    session_set_cookie_params($lifetime, $path, $domain, $secure, TRUE);

    session_start();

    echo session_id();
}

Upvotes: 3

Views: 1230

Answers (1)

Marcel Burkhard
Marcel Burkhard

Reputation: 3523

First of all, you set your session lifetime to 10 seconds, which means that you get a new session after every 10 seconds.

Side note: It's normal behaviour for some browsers to discard session cookies when closing the browser.

If you need your session to expand over multiple browser sessions, you need to use persistent cookies.

Example:

function init_session(/* ... */)
{
    if(!isset($_SESSION)) {
        session_start();
    }
    //Is it a running session?
    if(isset($_SESSION['somevalue'])) {
        //Everything is fine, session is loaded, no need to reload from cookies
    } else {
        if(isset($_COOKIE['yourcookiename'])) {
            //reload session from cookie
        } else {
            create_session();
        }
    }
}

function create_session()
{
    $_SESSION['somevalue'] = 1;
    //setcookie
}

Read http://www.allaboutcookies.org/cookies/cookies-the-same.html

Upvotes: 1

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