[SOLVED] Unexpected keys for $_SESSION and Yii::app()->session

Yii 1.1 General Discussion
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Hi, I didn’t modify anything dealing with session setup, so in my Yii config sessions are started automatically.

I was trying to get session values for key ‘name’, but looking at the session file stored in /tmp on the server I see that ‘name’ key I was looking was indeed ‘46278e760e264a62c85bf2e34ce11cfc__name’ so I had to do


$session = Yii::app()->session->get('46278e760e264a62c85bf2e34ce11cfc__name');

to get the ‘name’ value.

All the keys are stored with ‘46278e760e264a62c85bf2e34ce11cfc__’ preceding the meaningful name.

Why is it like this? Is this a safety measure? How can I get this prefix programmatically or how can I stop Yii using this prefix?

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[size="2"]Check did someone called [/size]setStateKeyPrefix() function somewhere in code (index.php, or base controller or similar bootstraping files).

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Thanks, I didn’t know what it was… The stateKeyPrefix

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I’m looking at the api refference:

http://www.yiiframework.com/doc/api/1.1/CHttpSession

“46278e760e264a62c85bf2e34ce11cfc__” seems to me an user specific prefix. And you don’t have to (or, should not) touch it.

Probably you just have to "open" the session before accessing the session variables.

5

NP

Let me know if the problem is solved ;)

6

Oh yes, the problem is SOLVED!

7

Please share with us what the problem was, so we can help to anyone in the future.

Thx!