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Your application needs session support? patSession is the easy to use and secure answer'''

Using patSession as an abraction layer for storing and restoring data in sessions. Furthermore it implements a general and reusable way to secure your sessions to avoid hijacking.

Use the source, Luke!

As a traditional PAT project, patSession is open source and free, as well. So you may want to look in the source code at the public web interface of our SVN server. Besides browsing the SVN repository it is also possible to check out the complete project by anonymous SVN.

PHP 5 vs 4

Recent version of patSession require PHP 5.1 and or higher. Still, there are patSession releases of the 1.x branch that run with PHP4 and do a quite good job. On the other side, if you really want to feel the power of patSession, you have to go to version 2.x under PHP 5.

This manual describes patSession 2.x.