What is the length of a PHP session id string?

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Gustavo picture Gustavo · Sep 3, 2012 · Viewed 53.2k times · Source

I'm making a table in a MySQL database to save some session data, including session_id. What should be the length of the VARCHAR to store the session_id string?

Answer

sachleen picture sachleen · Sep 3, 2012

Depends on session.hash_function and session.hash_bits_per_character.

Check out the session_id page for more info.

The higher you set session.hash_bits_per_character the shorter your session_id will become by using more bits per character. The possible values are 4, 5, or 6.

When using sha-1 for hashing (by setting ini_set('session.hash_function', 1) the following session string lengths are produced by the three session.hash_bits_per_character settings:

4 - 40 character string

5 - 32 character string

6 - 27 character string

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