<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"> <html> <head> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"> <title>Decodes session data from a session encoded string</title> </head> <body><div class="manualnavbar" style="text-align: center;"> <div class="prev" style="text-align: left; float: left;"><a href="function.session-commit.html">session_commit</a></div> <div class="next" style="text-align: right; float: right;"><a href="function.session-destroy.html">session_destroy</a></div> <div class="up"><a href="ref.session.html">Session Functions</a></div> <div class="home"><a href="index.html">PHP Manual</a></div> </div><hr /><div id="function.session-decode" class="refentry"> <div class="refnamediv"> <h1 class="refname">session_decode</h1> <p class="verinfo">(PHP 4, PHP 5)</p><p class="refpurpose"><span class="refname">session_decode</span> — <span class="dc-title">Decodes session data from a session encoded string</span></p> </div> <div class="refsect1 description" id="refsect1-function.session-decode-description"> <h3 class="title">Description</h3> <div class="methodsynopsis dc-description"> <span class="type">bool</span> <span class="methodname"><strong>session_decode</strong></span> ( <span class="methodparam"><span class="type">string</span> <code class="parameter">$data</code></span> )</div> <p class="para rdfs-comment"> <span class="function"><strong>session_decode()</strong></span> decodes the serialized session data provided in <em><code class="parameter">$data</code></em>, and populates the $_SESSION superglobal with the result. </p> <p class="para"> Please note the unserialization method is not the same as <span class="function"><a href="function.unserialize.html" class="function">unserialize()</a></span>. The serialization method is internal to PHP and can be set using <a href="session.configuration.html#ini.session.serialize-handler" class="link">session.serialize_handler</a>. </p> </div> <div class="refsect1 parameters" id="refsect1-function.session-decode-parameters"> <h3 class="title">Parameters</h3> <p class="para"> <dl> <dt> <span class="term"><em><code class="parameter">data</code></em></span> <dd> <p class="para"> The encoded data to be stored. </p> </dd> </dt> </dl> </p> </div> <div class="refsect1 returnvalues" id="refsect1-function.session-decode-returnvalues"> <h3 class="title">Return Values</h3> <p class="para"> Returns <strong><code>TRUE</code></strong> on success or <strong><code>FALSE</code></strong> on failure. </p> </div> <div class="refsect1 seealso" id="refsect1-function.session-decode-seealso"> <h3 class="title">See Also</h3> <p class="para"> <ul class="simplelist"> <li class="member"> <span class="function"><a href="function.session-encode.html" class="function" rel="rdfs-seeAlso">session_encode()</a> - Encodes the current session data as a session encoded string</span></li> <li class="member"><a href="session.configuration.html#ini.session.serialize-handler" class="link">session.serialize_handler</a></li> </ul> </p> </div> </div><hr /><div class="manualnavbar" style="text-align: center;"> <div class="prev" style="text-align: left; float: left;"><a href="function.session-commit.html">session_commit</a></div> <div class="next" style="text-align: right; float: right;"><a href="function.session-destroy.html">session_destroy</a></div> <div class="up"><a href="ref.session.html">Session Functions</a></div> <div class="home"><a href="index.html">PHP Manual</a></div> </div></body></html>