Is there a way to read respectively parse Joomla session data in PHP as session_decode() and unserialize() are not working on that values?
In my component I need to read data from all active non-guest sessions (data column in the #__session database table) and check for the existence of certain variables.
In that field data is split into namespaces. Namespace and its data is separated by |, so if you use explode('|',$data) you will achieve array where odd index element is an data array and each even index element is an namespace. Here is an example how to decode this variable into namespaces:
$db = JFactory::getDbo(); $query = $db->getQuery(true); $query->select('data')->from('#__session'); $db->setQuery($query); $raw_data = str_replace('\0\0\0', chr(0) . '*' . chr(0), (string)$db->loadObject()->data); $raw_data = explode('|',$raw_data); $data = array(); for( $idx = 1, $ic=count($raw_data); $idx<$ic; $idx+=2 ) { $data[$raw_data[$idx-1]] = unserialize($raw_data[$idx]); } The $data variable will contain session data split into separate array elements where array key is namespace. The default namespace should be first and its index should be __default
