joomla/session

Joomla Session Package

4.0.0 2025-07-23 19:16 UTC

Requires

• php: ^8.3.0
• symfony/deprecation-contracts: ^2|^3

Requires (Dev)

• joomla/console: ^4.0
• joomla/database: ^4.0
• joomla/event: ^4.0
• joomla/input: ^4.0
• joomla/test: ^4.0
• joomla/utilities: ^4.0
• phpstan/phpstan: 2.1.17
• phpstan/phpstan-deprecation-rules: 2.0.3
• phpunit/phpunit: ^12.0
• squizlabs/php_codesniffer: ^3.10.2

Suggests

• ext-apcu: To use APCu cache as a session handler
• ext-memcached: To use a Memcached server as a session handler
• ext-redis: To use a Redis server as a session handler
• ext-session: To use the Joomla\Session\Storage\NativeStorage storage class.
• ext-wincache: To use WinCache as a session handler
• joomla/console: Install joomla/console if you want to use the CreateSessionTableCommand class.
• joomla/database: Install joomla/database if you want to use a database connection managed with Joomla\Database\DatabaseDriver as a session handler.
• joomla/event: The joomla/event package is required to use Joomla\Session\Session.
• joomla/input: The joomla/input package is required to use Address and Forwarded session validators.

GPL-2.0-or-later

• framework
• session
• joomla

README

The Session package provides an interface for managing sessions within an application.

Requirements

• PHP 8.1 or later

Installation via Composer

Add "joomla/session": "~3.0" to the require block in your composer.json and then run composer install.

{
	"require": {
		"joomla/session": "~3.0"
	}
}

Alternatively, you can simply run the following from the command line:

composer require joomla/session "~3.0"

If you want to include the test sources, use

composer require --prefer-source joomla/session "~3.0"