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chillerlan/php-session
======================

A simple encrypted session handler. PHP 7+

1.0.0(8y ago)119MITPHPPHP ^7.2.0

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chillerlan/php-session
======================

[](#chillerlanphp-session)

A [`SessionHandlerInterface`](http://php.net/manual/class.sessionhandlerinterface.php) implementation for PHP 7.2+

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Documentation
=============

[](#documentation)

Requirements
------------

[](#requirements)

- PHP 7.2+
- the [Sodium](http://php.net/manual/book.sodium.php) extension for session encryption

Installation
------------

[](#installation)

**requires [composer](https://getcomposer.org)**

*composer.json* (note: replace `dev-master` with a version boundary)

```
{
	"require": {
		"php": ">=7.0.3",
		"chillerlan/php-session": "dev-master"
	}
}
```

Manual installation
-------------------

[](#manual-installation)

Download the desired version of the package from [master](https://github.com/chillerlan/php-session/archive/master.zip) or [release](https://github.com/chillerlan/php-session/releases) and extract the contents to your project folder. After that:

- run `composer install` to install the required dependencies and generate `/vendor/autoload.php`.
- if you use a custom autoloader, point the namespace `chillerlan\Session` to the folder `src` of the package

Profit!

Usage
-----

[](#usage)

- @todo

###  Health Score

26

—

LowBetter than 41% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity8

Limited adoption so far

Community7

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity58

Maturing project, gaining track record

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 100% of commits — single point of failure

How is this calculated?**Maintenance (25%)** — Last commit recency, latest release date, and issue-to-star ratio. Uses a 2-year decay window.

**Popularity (30%)** — Total and monthly downloads, GitHub stars, and forks. Logarithmic scaling prevents top-heavy scores.

**Community (15%)** — Contributors, dependents, forks, watchers, and maintainers. Measures real ecosystem engagement.

**Maturity (30%)** — Project age, version count, PHP version support, and release stability.

###  Release Activity

Cadence

Unknown

Total

1

Last Release

3016d ago

### Community

Maintainers

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---

Top Contributors

[![codemasher](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/592497?v=4)](https://github.com/codemasher "codemasher (21 commits)")

###  Code Quality

TestsPHPUnit

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