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A question regarding the Session Class - El Forum - 06-20-2008
[eluser]EEssam[/eluser]
Hello,
I do not understand what is so good in having the following information available:
[array]
(
'session_id' => random hash,
'ip_address' => 'string - user IP address',
'user_agent' => 'string - user agent data',
'last_activity' => timestamp
)
How can this help me in creating a member area, for example?
Please clarify. Thanks.
A question regarding the Session Class - El Forum - 06-20-2008
[eluser]Matthieu Fauveau[/eluser]
These values are actually used by the session class itself to keep track of the users, nothing else...
A question regarding the Session Class - El Forum - 06-21-2008
[eluser]Crimp[/eluser]
You can put any information you want in the session (up to its limit). The above data is included in the session class by default.
To create a member area, with restricted access, you can for exmaple set session data called "logged_in" to TRUE.
Your session userdata array wil then be:
Code:
[array]
(
‘session_id’ => random hash,
‘ip_address’ => ‘string - user IP address’,
‘user_agent’ => ‘string - user agent data’,
‘last_activity’ => timestamp,
'logged_in' => TRUE
)In your member area methods you can then check for:
Code:
if ($this->session->userdata('logged_in'))
{
// do if logged in
}