patSession examples overview

These examples show the functionality of patSession in detail. This overview lists all examples with a small description, and to navigate the examples, use the navigation on the left.

» patSession::Basics
» patSession::Security
» patSession::SPL
» patSession::Testing

patSession::Basics (10)

These examples show how to setup patSession for basic useage.

• First steps
  Very first steps in patSession.
  
• Singleton
  Using a the singleton-pattern forces a single instance of patSession.
  
• Factory
  The factory-method allows to create multiple instances of patSession
  
• Parameters for patSession
  This example shows how to use parameters for creating different patSession-objects.
  
• Options explained
  A list of standard-options and how to use them
  
• Destroy sessions
  Shows how to terminate a session. Destroying a session also means to flush all session values.
  
• Restart
  Inactive session may restarted - of course, this will not restore the previous session values. Restarting a session means that you start over with an empty session container - but at least, the session will be active again!
  
• Session counter
  The internal session counter show you how many request were made in this session.
  
• Internal namespace
  patSession itself uses the session container to store some internal values. In order to avoid conflicts, the namespace "patSession" is used as a prefix for all values.
  
• Custom storage driver
  The official distribution of patSession only contains general purpose storage driver. Still you can implement your own driver without getting in conflict with your patSession installation.
  

patSession::Security (6)

Session and Security is a very important topic. These examples shows how to use patSession for a secure environment

• Expire
  Expire idle sessions
  
• Fix browser
  patSession allows to fix a session to a browser. Therefore all session data will be destroyed if the users tries to continue the session wit a different browser
  
• Fix IP address
  This feature avoids to continue any session from a different IP address then it was started.
  
• Fix referer
  Fixiation of the referer forces to stay on the same referer.
  
• Use token
  Ping-Pong disposible token for each request.
  
• Forking
  Forking a session clones the current session values and continues with a new session
  

patSession::SPL (3)

SPL features of patSession

• ArrayAccess
  Use array syntax $sess[] instead of get(), set(), has() and clear()
  
• Iterator
  Use foreach to iterate through session variables
  
• Property-a-like
  Use property syntax to shortcut function calls
  

patSession::Testing (4)

Some testing php-files used during development

• Output session container
  __toString()
  
• Wrong Driver
  Try to load a non existing driver
  
• Null Driver
  Test the dummy driver: Null
  
• Cli Driver
  Test the PHP-CLI driver: Cli.