Use Custome Sidebars without sessions

  • Resolved BigAndini

    (@fr00d)


    8 years, 1 month ago

    Hi,

    for caching purposes I’d like to completely disable the use of session. Therefore I started to analyse where session_start() is called and I found it in custom-sidebars/inc/class-custom-sidebars-explain.php:55. It looks like it is mainly used for cs-explain, but I did not find for what this setting is, yet. The class inc/external/wpmu-lib/inc/class-thelib.php is using a session variable as well but this can be disabled via WDEV_USE_SESSION.

    Is there already a way on how to use custom sidebars without session variables?

    Cheers
    Andi

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  • Hello Andi,

    I have to consult this question with Custom Sidebars developer – he is not online at the moment, so I’m waiting for his feedback.
    As soon I’ll know more about that I’ll let you knoe.

    kind regards,
    Kasia

    jdailey

    (@jdailey)

    Hi there! Thank you for your patience. This issue should be resolved but if you are still looking for a solution you can add define( 'WDEV_USE_SESSION', false ); to the wp-config.php

    Let us know if you encounter any other issues :).

    Thread Starter BigAndini

    (@fr00d)

    Hi,

    thanks for your answer. This setting solves the use of session within thelib class of wpmu-lib which is used by custom sidebars.

    However, there is another session key used called cs-explain in inc/class-custom-sidebars-explain.php. The session for that is started in line 71 if there is no session_id. I was not able to find a switch to turn that off.

    I don’t know what exactly is explained here. From the code it looks like custom sidebars explains here how sidebars are replaced by the plugin. For productive system I think this is not needed. Correct me if I’m wrong.

    Cheers
    Andi

    Hello @fr00d,

    Hope you’re doing well!

    This session is not used on every request, but mostly on the admin side and it should be detecting if a session exists for the code that is located in the same file at the 170 line. Some notes about this code:

    Returns true if the “explain mode” is enabled. Explain mode will display additional information in the front-end of the website on why which sidebar/widget is displayed. This is a per-user option (stored in current session)

    I’ve asked a developer for feedback if removing this code will be an appropriate solution.

    Kind regards,
    Nastia

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