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Derek Jones edited this page Jul 5, 2012 · 4 revisions

Category:Libraries::Session

This library was written by necessity after we (my development team) found a major bug with Internet Explorer (all versions). It does not like the cookie set by the session library that comes with CI, or any of the other libraries we tried.

So, we created a new library that uses native PHP sessions to manage the session itself, but uses the database to store the session data.

It is working for CI 1.7.1. It's a drop in replacement, all standard session methods work as intended. Just save this code in /system/application/libraries/Session.php

[EDIT by mradlmaier] It seems to work with CI 1.7.0, too. [/EDIT]

<?php  if ( ! defined('BASEPATH')) exit('No direct script access allowed');

/*
    Native / Database hybrid
    Code Igniter
    Citrusmedia - Matthew Lymer
*/


class CI_Session
{
    var $sess_table_name            = '';
    var $sess_expiration            = 7200;
    var $sess_match_ip                = FALSE;
    var $sess_match_useragent        = TRUE;
    var $sess_time_to_update        = 300;
    var $encryption_key                = '';
    var $flashdata_key                 = 'flash';
    var $time_reference                = 'time';
    var $gc_probability                = 5;
    var $userdata                    = array();
    var $CI;
    var $now;

    /**
     * Session Constructor
     *
     * The constructor runs the session routines automatically
     * whenever the class is instantiated.
     */
    function CI_Session($params = array())
    {                
        log_message('debug', "Session Class Initialized");

        // Set the super object to a local variable for use throughout the class
        $this->CI =& get_instance();

        // Set all the session preferences, which can either be set
        // manually via the $params array above or via the config file
        foreach (array('sess_table_name', 'sess_expiration', 'sess_match_ip', 'sess_match_useragent', 'sess_time_to_update', 'time_reference', 'encryption_key') as $key)
        {
            $this->$key = (isset($params[$key])) ? $params[$key] : $this->CI->config->item($key);
        }

        // Sessions, start your engines!
        ini_set("session.gc_maxlifetime", $this->sess_expiration);
        session_start();
        
        // Load the string helper so we can use the strip_slashes() function
        $this->CI->load->helper('string');

        // Are we using a database?  If so, load it
        if( !$this->sess_table_name ) {
            die('Session class database table name not configured');
        }
        
        $this->CI->load->database();

        // Set the "now" time.  Can either be GMT or server time, based on the
        // config prefs.  We use this to set the "last activity" time
        $this->now = $this->_get_time();

        // Set the session length. If the session expiration is
        // set to zero we'll set the expiration two years from now.
        if ($this->sess_expiration == 0)
        {
            $this->sess_expiration = (60*60*24*365*2);
        }

        // Run the Session routine. If a session doesn't exist we'll
        // create a new one.  If it does, we'll update it.
        if ( ! $this->sess_read())
        {
            $this->sess_create();
        }
        else
        {
            $this->sess_update();
        }

        // Delete 'old' flashdata (from last request)
           $this->_flashdata_sweep();

        // Mark all new flashdata as old (data will be deleted before next request)
           $this->_flashdata_mark();

        // Delete expired sessions if necessary
        $this->_sess_gc();

        log_message('debug', "Session routines successfully run");
    }

    // --------------------------------------------------------------------

    /**
     * Fetch the current session data if it exists
     *
     * @access    public
     * @return    bool
     */
    function sess_read()
    {
        // Unserialize the session array
        // $session = $this->_unserialize($session);
        
        $session = array();
        
        foreach( array('session_id', 'ip_address', 'user_agent', 'last_activity') as $key )
        {
            if( !isset($_SESSION[$key]) ) {
                $this->sess_destroy();
                return FALSE;
            }
            
            $session[$key] = $_SESSION[$key];
        }    
            
        // Is the session current?
        if (($session['last_activity'] + $this->sess_expiration) < $this->now)
        {
            $this->sess_destroy();
            return FALSE;
        }

        // Does the IP Match?
        if ($this->sess_match_ip == TRUE AND $session['ip_address'] != $this->CI->input->ip_address())
        {
            $this->sess_destroy();
            return FALSE;
        }

        // Does the User Agent Match?
        if ($this->sess_match_useragent == TRUE AND trim($session['user_agent']) != trim(substr($this->CI->input->user_agent(), 0, 50)))
        {
            $this->sess_destroy();
            return FALSE;
        }

        $this->CI->db->where('session_id', $session['session_id']);

        if ($this->sess_match_ip == TRUE)
        {
            $this->CI->db->where('ip_address', $session['ip_address']);
        }

        if ($this->sess_match_useragent == TRUE)
        {
            $this->CI->db->where('user_agent', $session['user_agent']);
        }

        $query = $this->CI->db->get($this->sess_table_name);

        // No result?  Kill it!
        if ($query->num_rows() == 0)
        {
            $this->sess_destroy();
            return FALSE;
        }

        // Is there custom data?  If so, add it to the main session array
        $row = $query->row();
        if (isset($row->user_data) AND $row->user_data != '')
        {
            $custom_data = $this->_unserialize($row->user_data);

            if (is_array($custom_data))
            {
                foreach ($custom_data as $key => $val)
                {
                    $session[$key] = $val;
                }
            }
        }

        // Session is valid!
        $this->userdata = $session;

        return TRUE;
    }

    // --------------------------------------------------------------------

    /**
     * Write the session data
     *
     * @access    public
     * @return    void
     */
    function sess_write()
    {
        // set the custom userdata, the session data we will set in a second
        $custom_userdata = $this->userdata;

        // Before continuing, we need to determine if there is any custom data to deal with.
        // Let's determine this by removing the default indexes to see if there's anything left in the array
        // and set the session data while we're at it
        foreach (array('session_id','ip_address','user_agent','last_activity') as $val)
        {
            unset($custom_userdata[$val]);
        }

        // Did we find any custom data?  If not, we turn the empty array into a string
        // since there's no reason to serialize and store an empty array in the DB
        if (count($custom_userdata) === 0)
        {
            $custom_userdata = '';
        }
        else
        {
            // Serialize the custom data array so we can store it
            $custom_userdata = $this->_serialize($custom_userdata);
        }

        // Run the update query
        $this->CI->db->where('session_id', $this->userdata['session_id']);
        $this->CI->db->update($this->sess_table_name, array('last_activity' => $this->userdata['last_activity'], 'user_data' => $custom_userdata));
    }

    // --------------------------------------------------------------------

    /**
     * Create a new session
     *
     * @access    public
     * @return    void
     */
    function sess_create()
    {
        $sessid = '';
        while (strlen($sessid) < 32)
        {
            $sessid .= mt_rand(0, mt_getrandmax());
        }

        // To make the session ID even more secure we'll combine it with the user's IP
        $sessid .= $this->CI->input->ip_address();

        $this->userdata = array(
            'session_id'     => md5(uniqid($sessid, TRUE)),
            'ip_address'     => $this->CI->input->ip_address(),
            'user_agent'     => substr($this->CI->input->user_agent(), 0, 50),
            'last_activity'    => $this->now
        );
        
        $_SESSION['session_id'] = $this->userdata['session_id'];
        $_SESSION['ip_address'] = $this->userdata['ip_address'];
        $_SESSION['user_agent'] = $this->userdata['user_agent'];
        $_SESSION['last_activity'] = $this->userdata['last_activity'];

        $this->CI->db->query($this->CI->db->insert_string($this->sess_table_name, $this->userdata));
    }

    // --------------------------------------------------------------------

    /**
     * Update an existing session
     *
     * @access    public
     * @return    void
     */
    function sess_update()
    {
        // We only update the session every five minutes by default
        if (($this->userdata['last_activity'] + $this->sess_time_to_update) >= $this->now)
        {
            return;
        }

        // Save the old session id so we know which record to
        // update in the database if we need it
        $old_sessid = $this->userdata['session_id'];
        $new_sessid = '';
        while (strlen($new_sessid) < 32)
        {
            $new_sessid .= mt_rand(0, mt_getrandmax());
        }

        // To make the session ID even more secure we'll combine it with the user's IP
        $new_sessid .= $this->CI->input->ip_address();

        // Turn it into a hash
        $new_sessid = md5(uniqid($new_sessid, TRUE));

        // Update the session data in the session data array
        $_SESSION['session_id'] = $this->userdata['session_id'] = $new_sessid;
        $_SESSION['last_activity'] = $this->userdata['last_activity'] = $this->now;

        $this->CI->db->query($this->CI->db->update_string($this->sess_table_name, array('last_activity' => $this->now, 'session_id' => $new_sessid), array('session_id' => $old_sessid)));
    }

    // --------------------------------------------------------------------

    /**
     * Destroy the current session
     *
     * @access    public
     * @return    void
     */
    function sess_destroy()
    {
        // Kill the session DB row
        if( isset($this->userdata['session_id']) )
        {
            $this->CI->db->where('session_id', $this->userdata['session_id']);
            $this->CI->db->delete($this->sess_table_name);
        }
    }

    // --------------------------------------------------------------------

    /**
     * Fetch a specific item from the session array
     *
     * @access    public
     * @param    string
     * @return    string
     */
    function userdata($item)
    {
        return ( isset($this->userdata[$item]) ? $this->userdata[$item] : FALSE );
    }

    // --------------------------------------------------------------------

    /**
     * Fetch all session data
     *
     * @access    public
     * @return    mixed
     */
    function all_userdata()
    {
        return ( isset($this->userdata) ? $this->userdata : FALSE );
    }

    // --------------------------------------------------------------------

    /**
     * Add or change data in the "userdata" array
     *
     * @access    public
     * @param    mixed
     * @param    string
     * @return    void
     */
    function set_userdata($newdata = array(), $newval = '')
    {
        if (is_string($newdata))
        {
            $newdata = array($newdata => $newval);
        }

        if (count($newdata) > 0)
        {
            foreach ($newdata as $key => $val)
            {
                $this->userdata[$key] = $val;
            }
        }

        $this->sess_write();
    }

    // --------------------------------------------------------------------

    /**
     * Delete a session variable from the "userdata" array
     *
     * @access    array
     * @return    void
     */
    function unset_userdata($newdata = array())
    {
        if (is_string($newdata))
        {
            $newdata = array($newdata => '');
        }

        if (count($newdata) > 0)
        {
            foreach ($newdata as $key => $val)
            {
                unset($this->userdata[$key]);
            }
        }

        $this->sess_write();
    }

    // ------------------------------------------------------------------------

    /**
     * Add or change flashdata, only available
     * until the next request
     *
     * @access    public
     * @param    mixed
     * @param    string
     * @return    void
     */
    function set_flashdata($newdata = array(), $newval = '')
    {
        if (is_string($newdata))
        {
            $newdata = array($newdata => $newval);
        }

        if (count($newdata) > 0)
        {
            foreach ($newdata as $key => $val)
            {
                $flashdata_key = $this->flashdata_key.':new:'.$key;
                $this->set_userdata($flashdata_key, $val);
            }
        }
    }

    // ------------------------------------------------------------------------

    /**
     * Keeps existing flashdata available to next request.
     *
     * @access    public
     * @param    string
     * @return    void
     */
    function keep_flashdata($key)
    {
        // 'old' flashdata gets removed.  Here we mark all
        // flashdata as 'new' to preserve it from _flashdata_sweep()
        // Note the function will return FALSE if the $key
        // provided cannot be found
        $old_flashdata_key = $this->flashdata_key.':old:'.$key;
        $value = $this->userdata($old_flashdata_key);

        $new_flashdata_key = $this->flashdata_key.':new:'.$key;
        $this->set_userdata($new_flashdata_key, $value);
    }

    // ------------------------------------------------------------------------

    /**
     * Fetch a specific flashdata item from the session array
     *
     * @access    public
     * @param    string
     * @return    string
     */
    function flashdata($key)
    {
        $flashdata_key = $this->flashdata_key.':old:'.$key;
        return $this->userdata($flashdata_key);
    }

    // ------------------------------------------------------------------------

    /**
     * Identifies flashdata as 'old' for removal
     * when _flashdata_sweep() runs.
     *
     * @access    private
     * @return    void
     */
    function _flashdata_mark()
    {
        $userdata = $this->all_userdata();
        foreach ($userdata as $name => $value)
        {
            $parts = explode(':new:', $name);
            if (is_array($parts) && count($parts) === 2)
            {
                $new_name = $this->flashdata_key.':old:'.$parts[1];
                $this->set_userdata($new_name, $value);
                $this->unset_userdata($name);
            }
        }
    }

    // ------------------------------------------------------------------------

    /**
     * Removes all flashdata marked as 'old'
     *
     * @access    private
     * @return    void
     */

    function _flashdata_sweep()
    {
        $userdata = $this->all_userdata();
        foreach ($userdata as $key => $value)
        {
            if (strpos($key, ':old:'))
            {
                $this->unset_userdata($key);
            }
        }

    }

    // --------------------------------------------------------------------

    /**
     * Get the "now" time
     *
     * @access    private
     * @return    string
     */
    function _get_time()
    {
        if (strtolower($this->time_reference) == 'gmt')
        {
            $now = time();
            $time = mktime(gmdate("H", $now), gmdate("i", $now), gmdate("s", $now), gmdate("m", $now), gmdate("d", $now), gmdate("Y", $now));
        }
        else
        {
            $time = time();
        }

        return $time;
    }


    // --------------------------------------------------------------------

    /**
     * Serialize an array
     *
     * This function first converts any slashes found in the array to a temporary
     * marker, so when it gets unserialized the slashes will be preserved
     *
     * @access    private
     * @param    array
     * @return    string
     */
    function _serialize($data)
    {
        if (is_array($data))
        {
            foreach ($data as $key => $val)
            {
                $data[$key] = str_replace('\\', '{{slash}}', $val);
            }
        }
        else
        {
            $data = str_replace('\\', '{{slash}}', $data);
        }

        return serialize($data);
    }

    // --------------------------------------------------------------------

    /**
     * Unserialize
     *
     * This function unserializes a data string, then converts any
     * temporary slash markers back to actual slashes
     *
     * @access    private
     * @param    array
     * @return    string
     */
    function _unserialize($data)
    {
        $data = @unserialize(strip_slashes($data));

        if (is_array($data))
        {
            foreach ($data as $key => $val)
            {
                $data[$key] = str_replace('{{slash}}', '\\', $val);
            }

            return $data;
        }

        return str_replace('{{slash}}', '\\', $data);
    }

    // --------------------------------------------------------------------

    /**
     * Garbage collection
     *
     * This deletes expired session rows from database
     * if the probability percentage is met
     *
     * @access    public
     * @return    void
     */
    function _sess_gc()
    {
        srand(time());
        if ((rand() % 100) < $this->gc_probability)
        {
            $expire = $this->now - $this->sess_expiration;

            $this->CI->db->where("last_activity < {$expire}");
            $this->CI->db->delete($this->sess_table_name);

            log_message('debug', 'Session garbage collection performed.');
        }
    }


}
// END Session Class

/* End of file Session.php */
/* Location: ./system/application/libraries/Session.php */

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