[![Latest Stable Version]](https://packagist.org/packages/wikimedia/php-session-serializer) [![License]](https://packagist.org/packages/wikimedia/php-session-serializer) php-session-serializer ====================== php-session-serializer is a PHP library that provides methods that work like PHP's [session_encode][phpencode] and [session_decode][phpdecode] functions, but don't mess with the `$_SESSION` superglobal. It supports the `php`, `php_binary`, and `php_serialize` serialize handlers. `wddx` is not supported, since it is inferior to `php` and `php_binary`. Usage -----
use Wikimedia\PhpSessionSerializer;
// (optional) Send logs to a PSR-3 logger
PhpSessionSerializer::setLogger( $logger )
// (optional) Ensure that session.serialize_handler is set to a usable value
PhpSessionSerializer::setSerializeHandler();
// Encode session data
$string = PhpSessionSerializer::encode( $array );
// Decode session data
$array = PhpSessionSerializer::decode( $string );
Running tests
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composer install --prefer-dist
composer test
History
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This library was created to support custom session handler [read][] and
[write][] methods that are more useful than blindly storing the serialized data
that PHP gives to custom handlers.
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[phpencode]: https://php.net/manual/en/function.session-encode.php
[phpdecode]: https://php.net/manual/en/function.session-decode.php
[read]: https://php.net/manual/en/sessionhandlerinterface.read.php
[write]: https://php.net/manual/en/sessionhandlerinterface.write.php
[Latest Stable Version]: https://poser.pugx.org/wikimedia/php-session-serializer/v/stable.svg
[License]: https://poser.pugx.org/wikimedia/php-session-serializer/license.svg