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Why are my PHP sessions not working?
Make sure you didn’t delete or empty the session. Make sure the key in your $_SESSION superglobal array is not overwritten anywhere. Make sure you redirect to the same domain. So redirecting from a www.yourdomain.com to yourdomain.com doesn’t carry the session forward.
Accessing Cookies Values The PHP $_COOKIE superglobal variable is used to retrieve a cookie value. It typically an associative array that contains a list of all the cookies values sent by the browser in the current request, keyed by cookie name.
How does the PHP session work in WordPress?
WordPress itself doesn’t use the session, it uses cookies, but if you use session_start or the $_SESSION variable you are using PHP sessions. There are plugins that change this behaviour, to make the sessions work over multiple servers by storing the session data in the database.
Is it safe to use a session in WordPress?
WordPress and Sessions The WordPress platform is totally stateless and provides no support for the use of sessions outside of the cookie that keeps a user logged in. This is a very good policy and helps keep your blog light and responsive. Unfortunately there are times that a session might be convenient to hold some data between requests.
How to close a session in PHP server?
A PHP session was created by a session_start () function call. This interferes with REST API and loopback requests. The session should be closed by session_write_close () before making any HTTP requests.” I have deactivated woocommerce plugin, and it went away.
Why do I Lose my PHP session variables?
Calling session_start will set the $_SESSION global, so if you call it before wp-settiings is run and register_globals is set you will lose your session variables. In most cases this isn’t a problem, but your hosting provider may have turned that option on and you can’t turn it off.