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Storing PHP Sessions in a Database
By: Rich Smith
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    2007-05-02


    Table of Contents:
  • Storing PHP Sessions in a Database
  • Why did they fail?
  • Overriding the session storage
  • Opening and closing the session
  • Reading and Writing Session Data
  • Cleaning up the session
  • Putting it all together
  • Finishing it up

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    Storing PHP Sessions in a Database - Putting it all together
    ( Page 7 of 8 )

    On the last few pages, we've talked about a bunch of little pieces that make up the sessions class.  I thought I would take a minute and give you the complete class in one shot.

    class SessionManager {

       var $life_time;

       function SessionManager() {

          // Read the maxlifetime setting from PHP
          $this->life_time = get_cfg_var("session.gc_maxlifetime");

          // Register this object as the session handler
          session_set_save_handler( 
            array( &$this, "open" ), 
            array( &$this, "close" ),
            array( &$this, "read" ),
            array( &$this, "write"),
            array( &$this, "destroy"),
            array( &$this, "gc" )
          );

       }

       function open( $save_path, $session_name ) {

          global $sess_save_path;

          $sess_save_path = $save_path;

          // Don't need to do anything. Just return TRUE.

          return true;

       }

       function close() {

          return true;

       }

       function read( $id ) {

          // Set empty result
          $data = '';

          // Fetch session data from the selected database

          $time = time();

          $newid = mysql_real_escape_string($id);
          $sql = "SELECT `session_data` FROM `sessions` WHERE
    `session_id` = '$newid' AND `expires` > $time";

          $rs = db_query($sql);                           
          $a = db_num_rows($rs);

          if($a > 0) {
            $row = db_fetch_assoc($rs);
            $data = $row['session_data'];

          }

          return $data;

       }

       function write( $id, $data ) {

          // Build query                
          $time = time() + $this->life_time;

          $newid = mysql_real_escape_string($id);
          $newdata = mysql_real_escape_string($data);

          $sql = "REPLACE `sessions`
    (`session_id`,`session_data`,`expires`) VALUES('$newid',
    '$newdata', $time)";

          $rs = db_query($sql);

          return TRUE;

       }

       function destroy( $id ) {

          // Build query
          $newid = mysql_real_escape_string($id);
          $sql = "DELETE FROM `sessions` WHERE `session_id` =
    '$newid'";

          db_query($sql);

          return TRUE;

       }

       function gc() {

          // Garbage Collection

                           

          // Build DELETE query.  Delete all records who have passed
    the expiration time
          $sql = 'DELETE FROM `sessions` WHERE `expires` <
    UNIX_TIMESTAMP();';

          db_query($sql);

          // Always return TRUE
          return true;

       }

    }



     
     
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