Question

I am facing problems in codeigniter 2.x session class. I want to have userid in session for global access on my pages after user login

I have 2 views and 1 controller
one view one i had a login form when a user submits the form
i validate it and create session user data by calling a method within controller as

function create_session($data) {        
        $mydata = array(
                   'userid'  => $data,
                   'role'     => $role,
                   'logged_in' => TRUE
               );

        $this->session->set_userdata($mydata);

        return;
    }

then my 2nd view is loaded
and i have on that view

print_r($this->session->userdata); 

and it print out the right results

but when i click on 1st view in navigation
i fond that

[userdata] => 

its empty
my session configuration is as

$config['encryption_key'] = 'askdfjowieuriomzx,mv';
$config['sess_cookie_name'] = 'wana_session';
$config['sess_expiration'] = 7200;
$config['sess_expire_on_close'] = FALSE;
$config['sess_encrypt_cookie'] = TRUE;
$config['sess_use_database'] = TRUE;
$config['sess_table_name'] = 'wana_sessions';
$config['sess_match_ip'] = FALSE;
$config['sess_match_useragent'] = TRUE;
$config['sess_time_to_update'] = 300; 

I have searched the forums, but i can’t solve this problem
please solve this issue or suggest an alternative method.

Answer 1

Try changing the reference to ‘gmt’ – in config.php

$config['time_reference'] = 'gmt'; instead of $config['time_reference'] = 'local';