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Do Joomla sessions for guests expire at different periods of time than logged in users?
No, it is not expected behavior that sessions for guests expire faster than sessions for admins.
Front-end and back-end users all use the same Session Lifetime which you configure in Administrator > ...
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Old sessions not being automatically deleted from the database
I've got a solution after reading the various pull requests on GitHub as pointed out above by Adam Gatt and Drew G.
In the summary of changes for github.com/joomla/joomla-cms/pull/19548, is says that ...
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Old sessions not being automatically deleted from the database
I believe changes were made to Joomla with the release of version 3.8.4, and that the session table will no longer be cleared if using 'Database' as the session handler.
See this page on Github.
The ...
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How to disable storing session for guest or public to Joomla table
Another way to reduce the server load is to make the session table of memory type. You need to set mysqls heap size quite large and convert the blob field in session into a large varchar, say 15000 ...
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Get Session Value in Joomla
var id='<?php $s = JFactory::getSession(); echo $s->getId();?>';
console.log(id);
Simple. That's enough internet for today.
For more information on accessing session information please see ...
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"Warning: session_start(): Failed to read session data" after upgrading from PHP 7.4 to PHP 8.0
Check and manually update any Addhandler directives in the .htaccess file if necessary.
For example, you may need to update:
This: AddHandler application/x-httpd-php74 .php
To this: AddHandler ...
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How to write the logged in user id in Plotalot queries?
Plotalot includes various variables that can be used in sql queries, eg.
%%J_USER_ID%%
is the currently logged in user_id. The Plotalot User Documentation Available as PDF here
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Failed to Read Session Data After Renaming DB
Found the answer.
When I renamed the database I also had to re-assign the database user to this database.
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AJAX POST request with form Token always responds with "Invalid Token"
By default JSession::checkToken() checks the post request for a value named the token. It can also be set to look for get values in a query string like JSession::checkToken('get'). It doesn't know ...
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How can I change the duration of a front-end session in a component?
On HTML pages you can use Keepalive script which periodically makes AJAX requests to prevent session expiration. It's widely used across the CMS on form pages. Usage in view layout:
$this->document-...
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Unset filter from user state
The solution I found was
$app->setUserState($this->context . '.filter.search', "");
The context can be changed so you can also change filters from different models
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Joomla forgets session (cookie) straight after login
I fixed the problem myself. Unfortunately, it was even my own mistake, you couldn't have come up with the solution.
I don't access the Joomla site directly but there is an HTTP gateway before it. The ...
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Session variable from a module is only accessible from the template after refresh
For this exact issue the solution was to avoid the things that are not working.
So instead of trying to get the variable from the module to the template in my php I created a html variable "--...
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Application shows session_start(): Failed to read session data: on browser
This error usually means that Joomla has failed to connect to the database.
Check that the database credentials are correct.
Also check that the relevant options e.g. mysqli are enabled in PHP. If you ...
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Does an AJAX request to a PHP script inherit session context
Short answer is yes.
From the browser side, any request, ajax or otherwise, will, by default, include the cookies for that domain. The window, the javascript, the onclick event, the staticness of the ...
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Joomla 3.9.23 Installation error after moving configuration file
Green,
That's a very unorthodox method of configuring your site.
Once you have a system generated configuration.php file from the install, you would be best simply moving that around and adjusting it ...
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Session Management Across Multiple Devices
Disable "Force Logout for all Sessions?" option in "User - Joomla!" plugin.
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Joomla session get function return old values and don't update with new value
I found a solution by changing the Session Handler in the Session Settings at Administrator->Global Configuration from Database to PHP. Now my code works correctly.
But I still don't know why the ...
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Change Value In Session Array
Session data is stored as Registry. Use keys separated by a dot to access nested properties.
$session->set('array.key', 'value');
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How to manage sessions between Joomla and external PHP applications?
Just keep the session alive by pinging Joomla via JS:
<script>
setInterval(function(){
var xhttp = new XMLHttpRequest();
xhttp.open('get', 'https://yourdomain.tld/index.php', true);
...
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Joomla session not passed to custom component
As the comment on your question stated, check if you're going from www to non-www. However, I would say that this is not the problem, since you are having the problem more than twice (Category A, B, ...
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Is there anything wrong with setting Joomla session variables consecutively in an external php script?
OK, the problem is that we got to use the same session.
In order to do that. We had to call $session->getId() to get current seeeion_id then send it to the client side, when we create the session ...
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