<HTML ><HEAD ><TITLE >session_save_path</TITLE ><META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.7"><LINK REL="HOME" TITLE="PHP Manual" HREF="index.html"><LINK REL="UP" TITLE="Session handling functions" HREF="ref.session.html"><LINK REL="PREVIOUS" TITLE="session_register" HREF="function.session-register.html"><LINK REL="NEXT" TITLE="session_set_cookie_params" HREF="function.session-set-cookie-params.html"><META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"></HEAD ><BODY CLASS="refentry" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#000000" LINK="#0000FF" VLINK="#840084" ALINK="#0000FF" ><DIV CLASS="NAVHEADER" ><TABLE SUMMARY="Header navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TH COLSPAN="3" ALIGN="center" >PHP Manual</TH ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="function.session-register.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="80%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="bottom" ></TD ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="function.session-set-cookie-params.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"></DIV ><H1 ><A NAME="function.session-save-path" ></A >session_save_path</H1 ><DIV CLASS="refnamediv" ><A NAME="AEN84630" ></A ><P > (PHP 4 )</P >session_save_path -- Get and/or set the current session save path</DIV ><DIV CLASS="refsect1" ><A NAME="AEN84633" ></A ><H2 >Description</H2 >string <B CLASS="methodname" >session_save_path</B > ( [string path])<BR ></BR ><P > <B CLASS="function" >session_save_path()</B > returns the path of the current directory used to save session data. If <TT CLASS="parameter" ><I >path</I ></TT > is specified, the path to which data is saved will be changed. <B CLASS="function" >session_save_path()</B > needs to be called before <A HREF="function.session-start.html" ><B CLASS="function" >session_start()</B ></A > for that purpose. <DIV CLASS="note" ><BLOCKQUOTE CLASS="note" ><P ><B >Note: </B > 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 ></BLOCKQUOTE ></DIV > </P ><P > See also the <A HREF="ref.session.html#ini.session.save-path" >session.save_path</A > configuration directive. </P ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="NAVFOOTER" ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"><TABLE SUMMARY="Footer navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="function.session-register.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="index.html" ACCESSKEY="H" >Home</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="function.session-set-cookie-params.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" >session_register</TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="ref.session.html" ACCESSKEY="U" >Up</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" >session_set_cookie_params</TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></BODY ></HTML >