{"id":1687,"date":"2012-08-16T04:47:11","date_gmt":"2012-08-16T04:47:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.inmotionhosting.com\/support\/2012\/08\/16\/session-handler\/"},"modified":"2021-08-16T23:37:59","modified_gmt":"2021-08-17T03:37:59","slug":"session-handler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.inmotionhosting.com\/support\/edu\/joomla\/joomla-3\/session-handler\/","title":{"rendered":"A look at the Joomla 3.1 Session Handler Setting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In our last Joomla 3.0 tutorial, we talked a little about sessions, specifically <a href=\"\/support\/edu\/joomla\/joomla-3\/session-lifetime\/\">the session lifetime setting<\/a>. Again, the <em>session lifetime<\/em> setting allows you to change the amount of time idle users will stayed logged into Joomla 3.0<\/p>\n<p>Joomla 3.0 includes another session setting you can adjust, <strong>Session Handler<\/strong>. Joomla gives the following description on this setting:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Session Handler:<\/strong><br><em>The mechanism by which Joomla! identifies a User once they are connected to the web site using non-persistent cookies.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<h2>What Session Handler options are available?<\/h2>\n<p>At the time of this writing, Joomla 3.0 only gives you two options for Session Handler:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/edu_joomla-3_global-configuration_session-handler-setting.gif\" rel=\"lightbox-0\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"601\" height=\"662\" src=\"https:\/\/www.inmotionhosting.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/edu_joomla-3_global-configuration_session-handler-setting.gif\" class=\"optimized-lcp-image\" alt=\"session-handler-setting\" loading=\"eager\" fetchpriority=\"high\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\"><\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\"><\/div>\n<ol>\n<li>Database<\/li>\n<li>None<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<div style=\"clear: both;\"><\/div>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<h2>Where is session data stored in the database?<\/h2>\n<p>When the <strong>Database<\/strong> option is set for <em>Session Handler<\/em>, session data is stored in a table named <strong>session<\/strong>. For example, if you have a table prefix of abc set for all of your Joomla tables, the session data would be stored in abc_session.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/edu_joomla-3_global-configuration_session-data-in-the-database.gif\" rel=\"lightbox-0\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"session-data-in-the-database\" class=\"std_ss alignleft size-full wp-image-8225\" height=\"664\" src=\"https:\/\/www.inmotionhosting.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/edu_joomla-3_global-configuration_session-data-in-the-database.gif\" style=\"float: left; margin: 0px 15px 15px 0px;\" width=\"965\"><\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\"><\/div>\n<p>Most of the information stored in a session within the database is not easily identifiable, but it can be seen on your server <a ferh=\"https:\/\/www.inmotionhosting.com\/joomla-hosting.html\">hosting joomla<\/a>. For example, if you look at the screenshot to the left, you will see that the information stored in the <strong>data<\/strong> field is difficult to interpret simply by looking at it.<\/p>\n<div style=\"clear: both;\"><\/div>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<h2>What\u2019s next?<\/h2>\n<p>Typically there are additional options for <em>Session Handler<\/em>, such as <strong>File<\/strong>. With an option for file session handling, Joomla 3.0 would save session data to text files on your server rather than as rows in your session table. At the time of this writing, <em>database<\/em> is the only session handler option. If additional session handlers become available, we\u2019ll keep you posted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In our last Joomla 3.0 tutorial, we talked a little about sessions, specifically the session lifetime setting. 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Joomla gives the following description on<a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.inmotionhosting.com\/support\/edu\/joomla\/joomla-3\/session-handler\/\"> Read More ><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4403,94],"tags":[4404],"class_list":["post-1687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-joomla","category-joomla-3","tag-joomla-v3"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.1.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>A look at the Joomla 3.1 Session Handler Setting | InMotion Hosting<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The session handler setting in Joomla 3.0 allows you to control how session information is stored by Joomla.\" \/>\n<meta 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