Comments on: Using Sessions in WordPress

By: Max

Max — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 23:01:20 +0000

Hi all! I am developing a theme for commercial use and require sessions to run to add some functionality that is needed.
At the moment wp_unregister_GLOBALS() seem to be a great problem for me, since modifying wp-setting.php manually is not an option. Has anyone got any ideas on how to add SESSIONS global variable to a $noUnset list, by coding only inside my theme folder? Or maybe desable wp_unregister_GLOBALS()? Or perhaps deactivate register_globals in php setting file of the server? But remember I am limited to doing that by code only from inside my theme folder. Any advise on this will be much appreciated, I’ve been trying to find a solution for a week now and getting very frastrated at wordpress…
Cheers
Max

By: Naoshad Nayeem

Naoshad Nayeem — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 13:06:59 +0000

Nice share. Thanks for posting!

By: Muhammad Salman Raza

Muhammad Salman Raza — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 13:44:44 +0000

You saved my day. Thanks for the help

By: Yuvraj

Yuvraj — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 07:31:23 +0000

function cp_admin_init() {
if (!session_id())
session_start();
}

add_action(‘init’, ‘cp_admin_init’);

Its working….

thanks all.

By: David

David — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 03:29:45 +0000

Frank THANK YOU SO MUCH!

I was trying to figure out why I couldn’t keep the session between my main site and my blog and you’ve solved it for me!

Cheers!

By: Hikari

Hikari — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 05:34:59 +0000

But will you ask your plugin users to do the same? o.O

Why don’t put it inside your plugin, just before you need the session data?

If it’s not set, you set them and consider the user just got to the site. If ID is available, just use it normally because it was started somewhere earlier.

By: John

John — Fri, 28 May 2010 07:07:38 +0000

Hello Frank,
Thanks for the session information that is really useful.
I am not quite familiar about how to use session.
I wondered if you could get the user name from each user login to the website.

Thanks.

john

By: Brett

Brett — Sun, 09 May 2010 17:20:16 +0000

I tried all methods on this page and found that Andy Potanin’s (October 5th, 2009 at 2:27 am) solution worked the best. Just add_action() in your plugin initialize file.

By: BB

BB — Sun, 11 Apr 2010 16:58:47 +0000

This works fine with the built in session function but does not for me when using a custom session handler -storing session in a db.

I am including it on the top of wp-config.php as with this example.

I’ve tried the wp-settings.php adjustment for variables to unset and am really scratching my head on this one…. any ideas?

thanks!

By: capsx

capsx — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 13:47:07 +0000

there is no need for
if (!session_id())

u must use only session_start();