= 5.4 but can be used on PHP 5.3 if a polyfill for // SessionHandlerInterface (see http://www.php.net/class.sessionhandlerinterface.php) // is provided either by you or an external package like `symfony/http-foundation`. if (!interface_exists('SessionHandlerInterface')) { die("ATTENTION: the session handler implemented by Predis needs PHP >= 5.4.0 or a polyfill ". "for \SessionHandlerInterface either provided by you or an external package.\n"); } // Instantiate a new client just like you would normally do. We'll prefix our session keys here. $client = new Predis\Client($single_server, array('prefix' => 'sessions:')); // Set `gc_maxlifetime` so that a session will be expired after 5 seconds since last access. $handler = new Predis\Session\SessionHandler($client, array('gc_maxlifetime' => 5)); // Register our session handler (it uses `session_set_save_handler()` internally). $handler->register(); // Set a fixed session ID just for the sake of our example. session_id('example_session_id'); session_start(); if (isset($_SESSION['foo'])) { echo "Session has `foo` set to {$_SESSION['foo']}\n"; } else { $_SESSION['foo'] = $value = mt_rand(); echo "Empty session, `foo` has been set with $value\n"; }