Question

I having issues with Codeigniter sessions dying on IE randomly, I search everywhere and tried everything, the bug just wouldnt dissappear, i tried the function to check if ajax and wont sess_update() not working either, so my question is, what is the setback if I initialize the CI session every controller call? I have both native and CI sessions, but It would take me a few more days to change everything to Native sessions. its a temp fix.

  class Transactions extends Controller {

    function Transactions()
    {
        session_start();
        parent::Controller();   

        $this->load->model('Modelcontracts');
        $this->load->model('Modelsignup');
        $this->load->model('Modeltransactions');

        $this->session->set_userdata('account_id',$_SESSION['account_id']);
        $this->session->set_userdata('email',$_SESSION['email']);
        $this->session->set_userdata('account_type',$_SESSION['account_type']);
        $this->session->set_userdata('parent_account_id',$_SESSION['parent_account_id']);
        $this->session->set_userdata('accountrole_id',$_SESSION['accountrole_id']);
        $this->session->set_userdata('user_type_id',$_SESSION['user_type_id']);

    }



    function index()
    {

Answer 1

I never experience any problems with CodeIgniters sessions. Have you created the MySQL table for ci_sessions?

The setback is basicly that it’s an unlogical call. If that doesn’t matter, then I can’t see any setbacks with it.

You could ease up the code like this though:

$arr = array('account_id', 'email', 'account_type', 'parent_account_id', 'accountrole_id', 'user_type_id');

foreach($arr as $h)
    if (isset($_SESSION[$h]))
        $this->session->set_userdata($h, $_SESSION[$h]);
    // else echo "Session [{$h}] doesn't exist!";

Or extend your session library to do a

foreach(array_keys($_SESSION) as $h)
    $this->CI->session->set_userdata($h, $_SESSION[$h]);

When loaded.