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ronanchilvers/silex-sessions
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Client side encrypted sessions for Silex

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silex-sessions
==============

[](#silex-sessions)

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This package provides client side, cookie based sessions for Silex. It is a standalone implementation and does not use Symfony's session mechanism. Session data is stored in a cookie allowing excellent horizontal scalability. The serialized data is encryption using [defuse/php-encryption](https://github.com/defuse/php-encryption) to ensure it is safe in the wild.

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

[](#installation)

Installation is easy via composer:

```
composer require ronanchilvers/silex-sessions
```

Configuration
-------------

[](#configuration)

Firstly you need to add the service provider. There are various configuration options (detailed below) but you must at least provide an encryption key. See the [key generation section below](#encryption-key-generation) for details on creating a secure key.

```
$app->register(new Ronanchilvers\Silex\Sessions\SessionProvider(), [
    'encryption.key' => $secureKey
]);
```

### Configuration options

[](#configuration-options)

There are various configuration options you can use, mostly to tweak the cookie storage the session uses. These are:

- cookie.name - The name of the session cookie
- cookie.expire - Expiry time for the cookie - by default when the browser closes
- cookie.path - The cookie path - '/' by default
- cookie.domain - The cookie domain - empty by default
- cookie.secure - Whether the session cookie should only be valid for HTTPS connections
- cookie.http.only - Whether the cookie should only be available via HTTP
- encryption.key - The secure encryption key to use for encrypting and decrypting the cookie payload

Usage
-----

[](#usage)

`SessionProvider` registers a couple of services on the container:

- A `session` service, the standard session interface. This service has the usual `get()`, `set()`, `addFlash()` and `getFlash()` methods available.
- If you're using [`knplabs/console-service-provider`](https://github.com/KnpLabs/ConsoleServiceProvider) you'll also get a `session:key:generate` command to use for key generation. **NB:** Make sure that you register the console provider *before* the session provider.

```
// Set session variables
$app['session']->set('name', 'Fred Bloggs');
$app['session']->set('stuff', ['data' => 123]);
$app['session']->addFlash('notice', 'Yeehaa!');

// Get them out again
$name = $app['session']->get('name');
// With a default
$stuff = $app['session']->get('stuff', []);

// Get the flashes for a particular type
foreach ($app['session']->getFlashes('notice') as $message) {
    echo "Notice : {$message}";
}
```

Symfony Web Profiler Support
----------------------------

[](#symfony-web-profiler-support)

A data collector for the Symfony Web Profiler is included. To use it you need to first add the `silex/web-profiler` package to your project. Then enable the web profiler providers like so:

```
$app->register(new Silex\Provider\WebProfilerServiceProvider(), [
    'profiler.cache_dir' => 'a directory somewhere',
]);
$app->register(new Ronanchilvers\Silex\Sessions\SessionWebProfilerProvider());
```

You should then start seeing a new button on the profiler toolbar and a new panel showing the session contents.

Encryption Key Generation
-------------------------

[](#encryption-key-generation)

Generating a decently secure encryption key is important to maintain the security of the session data. This package provides a [Symfony console](https://github.com/symfony/console) command to generate and output an ASCII safe key which you can store in a config file. The console command is added automatically if you're using [knplabs/console-service-provider](https://github.com/KnpLabs/ConsoleServiceProvider).

```
$ php bin/console session:key:generate
Generating new random encryption key
Key : aaf2234228005e7766c2e5075d9d229a4ff9fd0788a8c1d4dde08b1aa3a3d0e413c7694174201e20989fcb9db8238a8b6bdb1277f3d0e413c766c2e5075d9d2197d4d5b
```

###  Health Score

29

—

LowBetter than 57% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity14

Limited adoption so far

Community7

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity64

Established project with proven stability

 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

Every ~390 days

Total

2

Last Release

2690d ago

### Community

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