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PHP Session Save Path

This is the very useful function when you want to get or set your session save path. This function takes only one parameter which is option. This function will used to both set and get the session save path.

What is Session Save Path?

Session save path is path to any directory which will be used to save your session values.

Get Session Save Path

To get the current session save path you just need to call this function without passing any parameter just like below code.

[cc lang=”php”]
echo session_save_path();
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Set Session Save Path

To set the session save path you will just need to call the same function with parameter which is path of directory. Once you call this function your application’s session save path will get changed so it is good to set this path before calling the [code]session_start()[/code]. Have a look at the below code block to set the session save path.

[cc lang=”php”]
session_save_path(“/home/projects/projectx/session/”);

// Confirming the path
echo session_save_path();
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Conclusion

This function will be very handy if you want to store the user related session on any folder which is on web server. You can share your thought if you have used this function on any other way.

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  • SeanJA
    January 6, 2012 at 6:01 pm

    Are you guys just reposting the docs? There doesn’t really seem to be anything else that has been added here…

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