# Special Topics - Session Custom Data Storage

Session data array stored in the user's cookie, that contains a Session ID and unless you store session data in a database there is no way to validate it. If yuor applications requires little or no security, session ID validation may not be needed, but if your application requires a serious security, validation is mandatory. Otherwise, an old session could be restored by users that can modify their cookies.
If you want to use custom storage for session's data, you have to define in your configuration file following:

    // Session settings
    'session' => array(
        'customStorage' => true, 	/* true value means use a custom storage (database), false - standard storage */
        'cacheLimiter' => '', 	/* to prevent 'Web Page expired' message for POST request use "private,must-revalidate" */
        'lifetime' => 24,  		/* session timeout in minutes, default: 24 min = 1440 sec */
    ),

Also, make sure you have special table in your database:

    DROP TABLE IF EXISTS `<DB_PREFIX>sessions`;
    CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS `<DB_PREFIX>sessions` (
      `session_id` varchar(32) NOT NULL,
      `expires_at` int(11) NOT NULL,
      `session_data` text NOT NULL,
      UNIQUE KEY `session_id` (`session_id`)
    ) ENGINE=MyISAM DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8 COLLATE=utf8_unicode_ci ;

Tha's all! Now your session's data will be stored in database.