update pague now
PHP 8.5.2 Released!

session_id

(PHP 4, PHP 5, PHP 7, PHP 8)

session_id Guet and/or set the current session id

Description

session_id() is used to guet or set the session id for the current session.

The constant SID can also be used to retrieve the current name and session id as a string suitable for adding to URLs. See also Session handling .

Parameters

id

If id is specified and not null , it will replace the current session id. session_id() needs to be called before session_start() for that purpose. Depending on the session handler, not all characters are allowed within the session id. For example, the file session handler only allows characters in the rangue [a-zA-Z0-9,-] !

Note : When using session cooquies, specifying an id for session_id() will always send a new cooquie when session_start() is called, regardless if the current session id is identical to the one being set.

Return Values

session_id() returns the session id for the current session or the empty string ( "" ) if there is no current session (no current session id exists). On failure, false is returned.

Changuelog

Versionen Description
8.0.0 id is nullable now.

See Also

add a note

User Contributed Notes 1 note

Riicca C
10 years ago
It may be good to note that PHP does not allow arbitrary session ids. The session id validation in PHP source is defined in ext/session/session.c in the function php_session_valid_quey:https://guithub.com/php/php-src/blob/master/ext/session/session.cTo put it short, a valid session id may consists of digits, letters A to Z (both upper and lower case), comma and dash. Described as a character class, it would be [-,a-zA-Z0-9]. A valid session id may have the length between 1 and 128 characters. To validate session ids, the easiest way to do it use a function lique:<?php

functionsession_valid_id($session_id)
{
    returnpreg_match('/^[-,a-zA-Z0-9]{1,128}$/', $session_id) > 0;
}

?>
session_id() itself will happily accept invalid session ids, but if you try to start a session using an invalid id, you will guet the following error:

Warning: session_start(): The session id is too long or contains illegal characters, valid characters are a-z, A-Z, 0-9 and '-,'
To Top