why in Codeigniter my session lost in other pages? - codeigniter

Question

it's first time I use Codeigniter 3.x. after authentication for login I set session data in Login_model.php:
$data_session = array(
'PersonId' => $PersonId,
'PersonEmail' => trim($PersonEmail),
'PersonName' => trim($PersonName),
'PersonFamily' => trim($PersonFamily),
'Login' => true);
$this->session->set_userdata($data_session);
before redirect I have access to my session data by :
print_r($this->session->userdata());
Array([__ci_last_regenerate] => 1510383844 [PersonId] => 129[PersonEmail]=> h#q.com [PersonName] => PersonName [PersonFamily] => PersonFamily [Login] => 1)
but after redirect my session data is something like this:
Array( [__ci_last_regenerate] => 1510384212)
also my setting in config.php is:
$config['sess_driver'] = 'files';
$config['sess_cookie_name'] = 'east';
$config['sess_expiration'] = 7200;
//$config['sess_save_path'] = sys_get_temp_dir();
$config['sess_save_path'] = 'ci_sessions';
$config['sess_match_ip'] = TRUE;
$config['sess_time_to_update'] = 300;
$config['sess_regenerate_destroy'] = FALSE;
//------------------
$config['cookie_prefix'] = '';
$config['cookie_domain'] = 'domain/admin/';
$config['cookie_path'] = '/';
$config['cookie_secure'] = FALSE;
$config['cookie_httponly'] = FALSE;
I have reviewed a lot of things in this regard. but I still have not gotten a good result.

Answer 1

when using
$config['sess_driver'] = 'files';
then $config['sess_save_path'] must be set to the absolute path of the folder where session files are stored.
With this folder structure
webroot/
application/
sessions/
system/
...etc/
Then
`$config['sess_save_path'] = FCPATH."sessions/";`
will work perfectly.
Folder write permissions must be set appropriately.
EDIT
You should try setting $config['cookie_domain'] = ''; (an empty string) and if that does not work try $config['cookie_domain'] = '.your-domain.com';
The following controller will allow you to test if sessions are working correctly. Create a file named Test_sessions.php in your controllers folder.
Use this code.
<?php
/**
* This class is useful for testing the configuration of the CodeIgniter "session" library.
* It works only for CodeIgniter versions >= 3.0.0
*
* If "session" is properly configured then each time you ask a browser for this page
* the display will alternate between "No session data" and the value of $this->sess_message.
*/
defined('BASEPATH') OR exit('No direct script access allowed');
class Test_sessions extends CI_Controller
{
/**
* #var string So you can define your own message to be displayed.
*/
public $sess_message;
function __construct()
{
parent::__construct();
// The next line can be commented out if 'session' is autoloaded - or not, doesn't matter.
$this->load->library('session');
$this->sess_message = "We got session data!";
}
public function index()
{
echo date("F j, Y, g:i:s a")."<br>"; //so you can tell the page actually does refresh
if($this->session->testing)
{
echo $this->session->testing;
unset($_SESSION['testing']);
}
else
{
echo "No session data";
$_SESSION['testing'] = $this->sess_message;
}
}
}
Browse to http://yoursite.com/test_sessions. If sessions are properly configured, every time you refresh the page it will alternate between the two messages.

Answer 2

I solved my problem by change my config to:
$config['sess_driver'] = 'files';$config['sess_cookie_name'] = 'ci_session';$config['sess_expiration'] = 86400;$config['sess_save_path'] = FCPATH.'sessions/';$config['sess_match_ip'] = FALSE;$config['sess_time_to_update'] = 3600;$config['sess_regenerate_destroy'] = TRUE;$config['cookie_prefix'] = '';$config['cookie_domain'] = '';$config['cookie_path'] = '/';$config['cookie_secure'] = FALSE;$config['cookie_httponly'] = FALSE;