Class CakeSession

Session class for Cake.

Cake abstracts the handling of sessions. There are several convenient methods to access session information. This class is the implementation of those methods. They are mostly used by the Session Component.

Package: Cake\Model\Datasource
Copyright: Copyright 2005-2011, Cake Software Foundation, Inc. (http://cakefoundation.org)
License: License (http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php)
Location: Cake/Model/Datasource/CakeSession.php

Properties summary

$_userAgent protected static

string

User agent string
$cookieLifeTime public static

integer

Cookie lifetime
$error public static

array

Error messages for this session
$host public static

string

Hostname
$id public static

string

Current Session id
$lastError public static

integer

Error number of last occurred error
$path public static

string

Path to where the session is active.
$requestCountdown public static

integer

Number of requests that can occur during a session time without the session being renewed. This feature is only used when config value Session.autoRegenerate is set to true.
$security public static

string

'Security.level' setting, "high", "medium", or "low".
$sessionTime public static

integer

Time when this session becomes invalid.
$time public static

integer

Start time for this session.
$timeout public static

integer

Session timeout multiplier factor
$valid public static

boolean

True if the Session is still valid

Method Summary

_checkValid() protected static

Helper method to create a new session.
_configureSession() protected static

Helper method to initialize a session, based on Cake core settings.
_defaultConfig() protected static

Get one of the prebaked default session configurations.
_error() protected static

Return error description for given error number.
_getHandler() protected static

Find the handler class and make sure it implements the correct interface.
_overwrite() protected static

Used to write new data to _SESSION, since PHP doesn't like us setting the _SESSION var itself
_returnSessionVars() protected static

Returns all session variables.
_setError() protected static

Helper method to set an internal error message.
_setHost() protected static

Set the host name
_setPath() protected static

Setup the Path variable
_startSession() protected static

Helper method to start a session
_validAgentAndTime() protected static

Tests that the user agent is valid and that the session hasn't 'timed out'. Since timeouts are implemented in CakeSession it checks the current self::$time against the time the session is set to expire. The User agent is only checked if Session.checkAgent == true.
check() public static

Returns true if given variable is set in session.
clear() public static

Clears the session, the session id, and renew's the session.
delete() public static

Removes a variable from session.
destroy() public static

Helper method to destroy invalid sessions.
error() public static

Returns last occurred error as a string, if any.
id() public static

Returns the Session id
init() public static

Constructor.
read() public static

Returns given session variable, or all of them, if no parameters given.
renew() public static

Restarts this session.
start() public static

Starts the Session.
started() public static

Determine if Session has been started.
userAgent() public static

Get / Set the userAgent
valid() public static

Returns true if session is valid.
write() public static

Writes value to given session variable name.

Method Detail

_checkValid() protected static ¶

_checkValid( )

Helper method to create a new session.

_configureSession() protected static ¶

_configureSession( )

Helper method to initialize a session, based on Cake core settings.

Sessions can be configured with a few shortcut names as well as have any number of ini settings declared.

Throws

CakeSessionException
Throws exceptions when ini_set() fails.

_defaultConfig() protected static ¶

_defaultConfig( string $name )

Get one of the prebaked default session configurations.

Parameters

string $name

Returns

boolean|array

_error() protected static ¶

_error( integer $errorNumber )

Return error description for given error number.

Parameters

integer $errorNumber: Error to set

Returns

string
Error as string

_getHandler() protected static ¶

_getHandler( string $handler )

Find the handler class and make sure it implements the correct interface.

Parameters

string $handler

Throws

CakeSessionException

_overwrite() protected static ¶

_overwrite( array $old , array $new )

Used to write new data to _SESSION, since PHP doesn't like us setting the _SESSION var itself

Parameters

array $old: Set of old variables => values
array $new: New set of variable => value

_returnSessionVars() protected static ¶

_returnSessionVars( )

Returns all session variables.

Returns

mixed
Full $_SESSION array, or false on error.

_setError() protected static ¶

_setError( integer $errorNumber , string $errorMessage )

Helper method to set an internal error message.

Parameters

integer $errorNumber: Number of the error
string $errorMessage: Description of the error

_setHost() protected static ¶

_setHost( string $host )

Set the host name

Parameters

string $host: Hostname

_setPath() protected static ¶

_setPath( string $base = null )

Setup the Path variable

Parameters

string $base optional null: base path

_startSession() protected static ¶

_startSession( )

Helper method to start a session

Returns

boolean
Success

_validAgentAndTime() protected static ¶

_validAgentAndTime( )

Tests that the user agent is valid and that the session hasn't 'timed out'. Since timeouts are implemented in CakeSession it checks the current self::$time against the time the session is set to expire. The User agent is only checked if Session.checkAgent == true.

Returns

boolean

check() public static ¶

check( string $name = null )

Returns true if given variable is set in session.

Parameters

string $name optional null: Variable name to check for

Returns

boolean
True if variable is there

clear() public static ¶

clear( )

Clears the session, the session id, and renew's the session.

delete() public static ¶

delete( string $name )

Removes a variable from session.

Parameters

string $name: Session variable to remove

Returns

boolean
Success

destroy() public static ¶

destroy( )

Helper method to destroy invalid sessions.

error() public static ¶

error( )

Returns last occurred error as a string, if any.

Returns

mixed
Error description as a string, or false.

id() public static ¶

id( string $id = null )

Returns the Session id

Parameters

string $id optional null

Returns

string
Session id

init() public static ¶

init( string $base = null , boolean $start = true )

Constructor.

Parameters

string $base optional null: The base path for the Session
boolean $start optional true: Should session be started right now

read() public static ¶

read( mixed $name = null )

Returns given session variable, or all of them, if no parameters given.

Parameters

mixed $name optional null: The name of the session variable (or a path as sent to Set.extract)

Returns

mixed
The value of the session variable

renew() public static ¶

renew( )

Restarts this session.

start() public static ¶

start( )

Starts the Session.

Returns

boolean
True if session was started

started() public static ¶

started( )

Determine if Session has been started.

Returns

boolean
True if session has been started.

userAgent() public static ¶

userAgent( string $userAgent = null )

Get / Set the userAgent

Parameters

string $userAgent optional null: Set the userAgent

valid() public static ¶

valid( )

Returns true if session is valid.

Returns

boolean
Success

write() public static ¶

write( mixed $name , string $value = null )

Writes value to given session variable name.

Parameters

mixed $name: Name of variable
string $value optional null: Value to write

Returns

boolean
True if the write was successful, false if the write failed

Properties detail

`$_userAgent` ¶

protected static string

User agent string

''

`$cookieLifeTime` ¶

public static integer

Cookie lifetime

`$error` ¶

public static array

Error messages for this session

false

`$host` ¶

public static string

Hostname

null

`$id` ¶

public static string

Current Session id

null

`$lastError` ¶

public static integer

Error number of last occurred error

null

`$path` ¶

public static string

Path to where the session is active.

'/'

`$requestCountdown` ¶

public static integer

Number of requests that can occur during a session time without the session being renewed. This feature is only used when config value Session.autoRegenerate is set to true.

See

CakeSession::_checkValid()

`$security` ¶

public static string

'Security.level' setting, "high", "medium", or "low".

null

`$sessionTime` ¶

public static integer

Time when this session becomes invalid.

false

`$time` ¶

public static integer

Start time for this session.

false

`$timeout` ¶

public static integer

Session timeout multiplier factor

null

`$valid` ¶

public static boolean

True if the Session is still valid

false

Packages

Classes

Interfaces

Class CakeSession

Properties summary

Method Summary

_checkValid() protected static

_configureSession() protected static

_defaultConfig() protected static

_error() protected static

_getHandler() protected static

_overwrite() protected static

_returnSessionVars() protected static

_setError() protected static

_setHost() protected static

_setPath() protected static

_startSession() protected static

_validAgentAndTime() protected static

check() public static

clear() public static

delete() public static

destroy() public static

error() public static

id() public static

init() public static

read() public static

renew() public static

start() public static

started() public static

userAgent() public static

valid() public static

write() public static

Method Detail

_checkValid() protected static ¶

_configureSession() protected static ¶

Throws

_defaultConfig() protected static ¶

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Returns

_error() protected static ¶

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_getHandler() protected static ¶

Parameters

Throws

_overwrite() protected static ¶

Parameters

_returnSessionVars() protected static ¶

Returns

_setError() protected static ¶

Parameters

_setHost() protected static ¶

Parameters

_setPath() protected static ¶

Parameters

_startSession() protected static ¶

Returns

_validAgentAndTime() protected static ¶

Returns

check() public static ¶

Parameters

Returns

clear() public static ¶

delete() public static ¶

Parameters

Returns

destroy() public static ¶

error() public static ¶

Returns

id() public static ¶

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init() public static ¶

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read() public static ¶

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renew() public static ¶

start() public static ¶

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