By default, WordPress makes your login session cookie expire in 48 hours (or on browser close), or 14 days if you check the “Remember Me” box. Maybe you have some plugins which force your login cookie to expire. You could manually add the code below on your functions.php to extend your cookie expiry to whatever … Read more
EDIT: “THE PLUGIN BELOW ISN’T AVAILABLE ANYMORE, SO PLEASE USE THAT PLUGIN INSTEAD: WordPress Session Plugin“ There is a good WordPress Plugin adapted from CodeIgniter Session class: WP Sessions Plugin. When you activate the plugin, you can start to use $session object from anywhere in your theme ($session object as long as global). For instance, … Read more
Sessions aren’t enabled in wordpress by default, if you want to activate php sessions add this at the beginning of your functions.php: if (!session_id()) { session_start(); } You now can use $_SESSION[‘your-var’] = ‘your-value’; to set a session variable. Take a look at the PHP documentation on sessions. Update: There was a second answer, which, … Read more
If you want to set the timeout to 20 minutes, use something like this:
JWT doesn’t have a benefit over using “sessions” per se. JWTs provide a means of maintaining session state on the client instead of doing it on the server. What people often mean when asking this is “What are the benefits of using JWTs over using Server-side sessions“. With server-side sessions, you will either have to store … Read more
Make sure session_start(); is called before any sessions are being called. So a safe bet would be to put it at the beginning of your page, immediately after the opening <?php tag before anything else. Also ensure there are no whitespaces/tabs before the opening <?php tag. After the header redirect, end the current script using exit(); (Others have also suggested session_write_close(); and session_regenerate_id(true), you can try those as … Read more
Accessing & Assigning the Session Variable using Javascript: Assigning the ASP.NET Session Variable using Javascript: Accessing ASP.NET Session variable using Javascript:
Turned out there was some extra code in the AppModel that was messing things up: in beforeFind and afterFind: I don’t know why, but that was what the problem was. Removing those lines fixed the issue I was having.
From the session_destroy() page in the PHP manual: