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hrishi
hrishi

Reputation: 1656

Codeigniter session is not working on PHP 7

I am using codeigniter version 3.0.6 on PHP 5.6 and it works fine. but when I run same project on PHP 7.1 , codeigniter session is not working. I set session like below

$login_session = $this->session->set_userdata("user_session",$session_data);

when I print $login_session it is blank on PHP 7

Upvotes: 27

Views: 50780

Answers (9)

Imran
Imran

Reputation: 45

I have faced same problem and wasted a whole day. Here is simple solution.

Just download CodeIgniter 3.1.11 version and copy the system folder and replace the system folder with your old system folder

Upvotes: 3

Bipin Mishra
Bipin Mishra

Reputation: 31

you just need to go inside application/config/config.php this file and set session path

$config['sess_save_path'] = sys_get_temp_dir();

that will resolve your issue.

Upvotes: 3

Leon Lo
Leon Lo

Reputation: 597

Session id is different in php 7.1 and not pass the regex checking.

A simple fix: In system/libraries/Session/Session.php arround line 133

OR ! preg_match('/^[0-9a-f]{40}$/', $_COOKIE[$this->_config['cookie_name']])

remove '{40}$'

OR ! preg_match('/^[0-9a-f]/', $_COOKIE[$this->_config['cookie_name']])

The problem is that the session id is deleted from cookie because the regex mismatch. So the session id always renew.

This can fix the regular expression and prevent it run the line "unset($_COOKIE[$this->_config['cookie_name']]);"

It totally works for me !

FYI. Find this after I fix it myself. https://github.com/bcit-ci/CodeIgniter/issues/4830

Upvotes: 40

pimpace
pimpace

Reputation: 307

I propose the following steps:

  1. Go to https://www.codeigniter.com, download the latest 3.x.x version of the framework and unzip it.
  2. Make a copy of the system folder in the existing app, save it somewhere else then delete the one in your app folder.
  3. Take a copy of the system folder you just downloaded and place where you deleted the last one from.
  4. Finish!

This solves the problem seamlessly, it saves you time as well as the potential risk of messing your app up.

Upvotes: 12

Anmol Mourya
Anmol Mourya

Reputation: 550

Upgrade Codeigniter to latest version. Issue will resolved.

Upvotes: 2

Shafiq
Shafiq

Reputation: 1023

Recently I've faced the same problem by upgrading my php version from 5.6 to 7.1 My development environment is XAMPP (Apache + MariaDB) using php7.1.4

Please follow the below steps:

1) Go to system/libraries/Session/Session.php

2) Comment session_start() by adding //.

3) Go down to line around 312-315 where it says Security is king, and comment out the following lines:

ini_set('session.use_trans_sid', 0);
ini_set('session.use_strict_mode', 1);
ini_set('session.use_cookies', 1);
ini_set('session.use_only_cookies', 1);
ini_set('session.hash_function', 1);
ini_set('session.hash_bits_per_character', 4);

4) Then go to your main index.php ( the root index.php )

5) Add session_start() at the top once.

It works for me.

Upvotes: 43

user4419336
user4419336

Reputation:

Make sure you have set the session save path

$config['sess_driver'] = 'files';
$config['sess_cookie_name'] = 'ci_session';
$config['sess_expiration'] = 7200;
$config['sess_save_path'] = APPPATH . 'cache/session/';
$config['sess_match_ip'] = FALSE;
$config['sess_time_to_update'] = 300;
$config['sess_regenerate_destroy'] = FALSE;

Set the folder permission 0700

Autoload session if you want

$autoload['libraries'] = array('session');

How to set the session

$session = array('islogged' => true, 'user_id' => '1');

$this->session->set_userdata($session);

Get the user data one set examples

echo $this->session->userdata('user_id');

if (!$this->session->userdata('islogged')) {
     redirect('logout');
}

Upvotes: 7

Sunday Okoi
Sunday Okoi

Reputation: 303

The problem is from your PHP version, PHP 7.1 is not really stable, and has a lot of issues with sessions. Change your PHP version to 7.0 and sessions will automatically start working.

Upvotes: 1

Siddhesh
Siddhesh

Reputation: 1173

I found that the issue is with some earlier version of Codeigniter 3 and this is a bug already reported in their website. The bug has been fixed and in the latest version of Codeigniter 3 this issue doesn't happen.

If you are already in a faulty version cogeinter consider replacing system folder with latest version's one.

Found this answer here

Upvotes: 10

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