Sessions: I get an empty "user_data" key, what is this?

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Sessions: I get an empty "user_data" key, what is this? - El Forum - 07-21-2012

[eluser]ivanhalen[/eluser]
Hello, this is my first technical post: as a perfect newbie in CI, I'm sure I'll do a lot in the next months Smile

I'm playing with sessions: everything is fine, but looping session data in the view I get an empty "user_data", like this

Code:
session_id: 418dda183a86ecdc346c393882835a36

ip_address: 127.0.0.1

user_agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/536.11 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/20.0.1132.57 Safari/536.11

last_activity: 1342889023

user_data:

Is this fine?
Even if I pass some userdata with the suggested docs code as example:

Code:

$newdata = array(

                   'username'  => 'johndoe',

                   'email'     => '[email protected]',

                   'logged_in' => TRUE

               );



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

the "user_data" key is always empty:

Code:

session_id: 89d2ef778f169183e3280cd554645346

ip_address: 127.0.0.1

user_agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/536.11 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/20.0.1132.57 Safari/536.11

last_activity: 1342889775

user_data:

username: johndoe

email: [email protected]

logged_in: 1

Am I missing something? What the "user_data" key should contain?
Thank you!

Sessions: I get an empty "user_data" key, what is this? - El Forum - 07-21-2012

[eluser]InsiteFX[/eluser]
It's not missing it was added for future use so right now it will always be empty.

Sessions: I get an empty "user_data" key, what is this? - El Forum - 07-21-2012

[eluser]ivanhalen[/eluser]
Thanks very much, that makes sense! I wish the docs could be always up-do-date, so I'd avoid these dumb questions...

Sessions: I get an empty "user_data" key, what is this? - El Forum - 07-21-2012

[eluser]InsiteFX[/eluser]
No questions are dumb.