Are there any limitations to the amount of data that can be stored in PHP session variables?

PHP session variables have a default limit on the amount of data that can be stored, which is typically around 4KB per variable. If you need to store more data than this limit allows, you can serialize the data before storing it in the session variable and unserialize it when retrieving it. This allows you to store larger amounts of data in a single session variable. 

// Serialize the data before storing it in the session variable
$data = ['key1' => 'value1', 'key2' => 'value2'];
$serializedData = serialize($data);
$_SESSION['large_data'] = $serializedData;

// Unserialize the data when retrieving it from the session variable
$storedData = $_SESSION['large_data'];
$unserializedData = unserialize($storedData);

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PHP session variables data storage limitations capacity

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