Regarding CDbHttpSession

Yii 1.1 General Discussion
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Hello fellow Yii enthusiast!

I have a few questions regarding how CDbHttpSession works and I would like to be clarified about it.

  1. Why do for every session, there is always an insert to the database?.. I don’t get the purpose. (I’m thinking of a per-user basis, like user_id on the sessions table so that only 1 session record will correspond to the user)

  2. How do we extend CDbHttpSession in such a way that, if a user logs in to a different machine/browser, the previous active session will be terminated

Similar to this: Single Login Auth (I don’t get Y!!'s point here)

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Probably because CDbHttpSession was designed to work as a session storage handler, not to change the way PHP sessions work.

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ad 1) CDbHttpSession should work like standard php session - one record for evere session (user). if you get new record for every request - check if cookie is properly generated and if your browser accept it.

ad 2) An enhaced version of CDbHttpSession which extra checks for Full Ip Address/Partial Ip Address and User Agent

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Thanks for your replies!! I have some follow-up questions:

what is ‘expires’ in the CDbHttpSession database column? … is it similar to date created or last updated?..

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Expires is expires… it is a timestamp (unix format) when this session data should expire. Expires = created_at + time_to_live