# SessionHandler class return values

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- Started by Drak on 2012-01-03T05:59:47+00:00
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## #57169 — Drak — 2012-01-03T05:59:47+00:00

URL: https://externals.io/message/57169#57169

I think something is wrong with the SessionHandler class and I dont know if
it requires a bug report.

According to the documentation at
http://www.php.net/manual/en/class.sessionhandler.php the various methods
return 0 for success and 1 for failure which is kind of backwards since 0
would normally be evaluated as false and 1 as true.  This is in direct
contradiction with the current expected behaviour of
 `session_set_save_handler()`
http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.session-set-save-handler.php which
expects true or false return values except for the read handler which
should always return a string.  What's the deal here?

I think the return values really should be true and false for this class,
as expected by `session_set_save_handler()`

Regards,

Drak