note 116217 added to book.session

Be careful if you are updating to PHP 5.6 since the the Sessions's Write behavior changed. It now only writes the session if you changed the data. So this means that if you rely on your session to update an activity time stamp on the server (to control session expiry) you will end up having issues. Here is a quick fix if you are implementing SessionHandlerInterface: public function close() { $this->write($this->id, serialize($_SESSION)); return true; } Make sure you also use this: ini_set('session.serialize_handler', 'php_serialize'); // Force standard PHP functions handler for flexibility More details here: Request #17860 (Session write short circuit) https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=17860 ---- Server IP: 72.52.91.14 Probable Submitter: 216.246.243.217 ---- Manual Page -- http://php.net/manual/en/book.session.php Edit -- https://master.php.net/note/edit/116217 Del: integrated -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/116217/integrated Del: useless -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/116217/useless Del: bad code -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/116217/bad+code Del: spam -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/116217/spam Del: non-english -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/116217/non-english Del: in docs -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/116217/in+docs Del: other reasons-- https://master.php.net/note/delete/116217 Reject -- https://master.php.net/note/reject/116217 Search -- https://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php