How to use sessions in Joomla! 1.5 using the Joomla! API

• This can be obtained using the JFactory/getSession object

• Instantiate the getSession object

  $session =& JFactory::getSession();
  

  There are a couple of parameters that you can pass with this object. They are

  • name - The session name
  • id - Unique ID of the session
  • expire - Expiry date and time
  • security - Comma separated security options, have a look at JSession

• Now we set the session

  $session->set( 'mySession', 'sessionValue' );
  

• We get the session variable as follows

  $session->get( 'mySession' );
  

NOTE: For more information refer to the Joomla! API documentation.