Question

I know I am either skipping something or configured session incorrectly but Yii sessions are not working for me. I have spent a lot of time in debugging and searching but it doesn’t result in any concrete answer.

As described in documentation as well as tutorials over internet I have configured my application session as follows:

'components'=>array(
    'user'=>array(
    // enable cookie-based authentication
    'allowAutoLogin'=>true,
    ),
    'session' => array (
    'sessionName' => 'Site Session',
    'class'=>'CHttpSession',
    'useTransparentSessionID'   =>($_POST['PHPSESSID']) ? true : false,
    'autoStart' => 'true',
    'cookieMode' => 'allow',
    'timeout' => 300
),

However each time I am sending a request to server, I get a new session object. I have verified same via echo "Session id: ".Yii::app()->session->sessionID;, every time it gives me different id. Also variables which I have added in session previously are not accessible due to this behaviour.

Kindly provide some pointers, I have spent more than 4 hours in debugging and looking for a solution. Tons of thanks for any pointers in advance.

Thanks

~Tarun

Answer 1

It could well be just that you have a space in your sessions name.

I’ve just done a quick test on my working Yii instance, changed the session name to have a space in it, and the cookie value for the session seems to change every time.