WP Session Manager

Adds $_SESSION-like functionality to WordPress.

Every visitor, logged in or not, will be issued an instance of WP_Session. Their instance will be identified by an ID
stored in the _wp_session cookie. Typically, session data will be stored in a WordPress transient, but if your
installation has a caching system in-place (i.e. memcached), the session data might be stored in memory.

This provides plugin and theme authors the ability to use WordPress-managed session variables without having to use the
standard PHP $_SESSION superglobal.

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Installation

Manual Installation

Upload the entire /wp-session-manager folder to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory.
Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress.
Use WP_Session::get_instance() in your code.

Changelog

1.1.2

Fix a race condition where session expiration options could accidentally be set to autoload
Make the garbage collection routine run hourly to alleviate long-running tasks on larger sites

1.1.1

Fix a bug where session expiration was not properly set upon instantiation

1.1

Implement Recursive_ArrayAccess to provide multidimensional array support
Better expiration for session data
Implement garbage collection to keep the database clean

1.0.2

Switch to object persistence rather than transients

1.0.1

Changes implementation to avoid the use of a global variable (still registered for convenience)

1.0

First version