Best php 5 session alternative to Native Session

[eluser]paulopmx[/eluser]
Hi,

I was in the same pickle as you, so I took NG Session and modified it to allow the session to be removed on browser closed.

Download it here

just place the extracted file in /system/application/libraries

add this to your db

Code:

CREATE TABLE `ci_sessions` (
  `session_id` varchar(40) NOT NULL default '0',
  `ip_address` varchar(16) NOT NULL default '0',
  `user_agent` varchar(50) NOT NULL,
  `last_activity` int(10) unsigned NOT NULL default '0',
  `session_data` text,
  PRIMARY KEY  (`session_id`)
) ENGINE=MyISAM DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8;

in your config.php

Code:

$config['sess_cookie_name']            = 'ci_session';
$config['sess_expiration']            = 0;
$config['sess_encrypt_cookie']        = FALSE;
$config['sess_table_name']            = 'ci_sessions';
$config['sess_match_ip']            = TRUE;
$config['sess_match_useragent']        = TRUE;
$config['sess_use_database']        = TRUE;
$config['sess_time_to_update']        = 300;

setting $config['sess_expiration'] to 0 will tell the browser to delete the session on browser close, using -1 will tell the browser to delete the session after 2 years, or you can set your own in minutes.

This is just a modification of NG Session so you can use its wiki

http://codeigniter.com/wiki/NG_Session/

Hope this helps.

Paulo