<!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>Get and/or set the current session save path</title> </head> <body><div class="manualnavbar" style="text-align: center;"> <div class="prev" style="text-align: left; float: left;"><a href="function.session-register.html">session_register</a></div> <div class="next" style="text-align: right; float: right;"><a href="function.session-set-cookie-params.html">session_set_cookie_params</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-save-path" class="refentry"> <div class="refnamediv"> <h1 class="refname">session_save_path</h1> <p class="verinfo">(PHP 4, PHP 5)</p><p class="refpurpose"><span class="refname">session_save_path</span> — <span class="dc-title">Get and/or set the current session save path</span></p> </div> <div class="refsect1 description" id="refsect1-function.session-save-path-description"> <h3 class="title">Description</h3> <div class="methodsynopsis dc-description"> <span class="type">string</span> <span class="methodname"><strong>session_save_path</strong></span> ([ <span class="methodparam"><span class="type">string</span> <code class="parameter">$path</code></span> ] )</div> <p class="para rdfs-comment"> <span class="function"><strong>session_save_path()</strong></span> returns the path of the current directory used to save session data. </p> </div> <div class="refsect1 parameters" id="refsect1-function.session-save-path-parameters"> <h3 class="title">Parameters</h3> <p class="para"> <dl> <dt> <span class="term"><em><code class="parameter">path</code></em></span> <dd> <p class="para"> Session data path. If specified, the path to which data is saved will be changed. <span class="function"><strong>session_save_path()</strong></span> needs to be called before <span class="function"><a href="function.session-start.html" class="function">session_start()</a></span> for that purpose. </p> <p class="para"> <blockquote class="note"><p><strong class="note">Note</strong>: <p class="para"> On some operating systems, you may want to specify a path on a filesystem that handles lots of small files efficiently. For example, on Linux, reiserfs may provide better performance than ext2fs. </p> </p></blockquote> </p> </dd> </dt> </dl> </p> </div> <div class="refsect1 returnvalues" id="refsect1-function.session-save-path-returnvalues"> <h3 class="title">Return Values</h3> <p class="para"> Returns the path of the current directory used for data storage. </p> </div> <div class="refsect1 seealso" id="refsect1-function.session-save-path-seealso"> <h3 class="title">See Also</h3> <p class="para"> <ul class="simplelist"> <li class="member"> The <a href="session.configuration.html#ini.session.save-path" class="link">session.save_path</a> configuration directive </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-register.html">session_register</a></div> <div class="next" style="text-align: right; float: right;"><a href="function.session-set-cookie-params.html">session_set_cookie_params</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>