fizzka / session-encode-decode
Storageless PSR-7 Session support
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Requires
- php: >=7.0
Requires (Dev)
- phpunit/phpunit: ^5.7
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Last update: 2025-11-08 02:40:47 UTC
README
This library provides a way to encode and decode default session data.
Installation
The suggested installation method is via composer:
composer require psr7-sessions/session-encode-decode
Why this library?
PHP's native session_encode() and session_decode() functions has some limitations:
-
session_decode()
- Can't be used if there's no session active
- Populates the super global
$_SESSIONvariable automatically
-
session_encode()
- Do not accept parameters, so you can't use it to encode the content you want.
- Depends on
$_SESSIONglobal state
Encoding
(new PSR7SessionEncodeDecode\Encoder())->__invoke(['counter' => 2]); // 'counter|i:2;'
Decoding
(new PSR7SessionEncodeDecode\Decoder())->__invoke('counter|i:2;'); // ['counter' => 2]