Detect if PHP session exists

Question

Facebook now offer subscriptions to users so you can get realtime updates on changes  If my app receives an update  I plan to store it in the database  I would also like to detect if their session exists  If it does then I could update the data in there too   My session IDs are MD5 fb id   secret  so I could easily edit their session  The question is how can I detect if the session exists

User · Answer

The original code is from Sabry Suleiman.

Made it a bit prettier:

function is_session_started() {

    if ( php_sapi_name() === 'cli' )
        return false;

    return version_compare( phpversion(), '5.4.0', '>=' )
        ? session_status() === PHP_SESSION_ACTIVE
        : session_id() !== '';
}

First condition checks the Server API in use. If Command Line Interface is used, the function returns false.

Then we return the boolean result depending on the PHP version in use.

In ancient history you simply needed to check session_id(). If it's an empty string, then session is not started. Otherwise it is.

Since 5.4 to at least the current 8.0 the norm is to check session_status(). If it's not PHP_SESSION_ACTIVE, then either the session isn't started yet (PHP_SESSION_NONE) or sessions are not available altogether (PHP_SESSION_DISABLED).

User · Answer

According to the PHP net manual      If   SESSION  or  HTTP SESSION VARS for PHP 4 0 6 or less  is used  use isset   to check a variable is registered in   SESSION

User · Answer

If you are on php 5 4   it is cleaner to use session status     if  session status      PHP SESSION ACTIVE      echo  Session is active        PHP SESSION DISABLED if sessions are disabled  PHP SESSION NONE if sessions are enabled  but none exists  PHP SESSION ACTIVE if sessions are enabled  and one exists

User · Answer

function is session started         if   php sapi name        cli              if   version compare phpversion     5 4 0     gt                     return session status       PHP SESSION ACTIVE   TRUE   FALSE            else               return session id            FALSE   TRUE                      return FALSE        Example if   is session started       FALSE   session start

User · Answer

Which method is used to check if SESSION exists or not  Answer  isset   SESSION  variable name     Example  isset   SESSION  id

User · Answer

I use a combined version   if session id             isset   SESSION            session isn t started     session start

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