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Informations about the package session

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The package implements a session service, PSR-15 session middleware, and a flash message service which helps use one-time messages.

Requirements

Installation

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In order to maintain a session between requests you need to add SessionMiddleware to your route group or application middlewares. Route group should be preferred when you have both API with token-based authentication and regular web routes in the same application. Having it this way avoids starting the session for API endpoints.

Yii 3 configuration

In order to add a session for a certain group of routes, edit config/routes.php like the following:

To add a session to the whole application, edit config/application.php like the following:

General usage

You can access session data through SessionInterface.

In case you need some data to remain in session until read, such as in case with displaying a message on the next page flash messages is what you need. A flash message is a special type of data, that is available only in the current request and the next request. After that, it will be deleted automatically.

FlashInteface usage is the following:

Opening and closing session

Note: Closing session as early as possible is a good practice since many session implementations are blocking other requests while session is open.

There are two more ways to close session:

Custom session storage

When using Yiisoft\Session\Session as session component, you can provide your own storage implementation:

Custom storage must implement \SessionHandlerInterface.

Documentation

If you need help or have a question, the Yii Forum is a good place for that. You may also check out other Yii Community Resources.

License

The Yii Session is free software. It is released under the terms of the BSD License. Please see LICENSE for more information.

Maintained by Yii Software.

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All versions of session with dependencies

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Package Version
Requires php Version ^8.0
psr/http-message Version ^1.0|^2.0
psr/http-message-implementation Version 1.0
psr/http-server-handler Version ^1.0
psr/http-server-middleware Version ^1.0
yiisoft/cookies Version ^1.0
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