WooCommerce Session and Cookies

Today’s tutorial is about how the session and cookies work in WooCommerce. This tutorial will guide you on how woocommerce initializes the session and cookies.

Initially, WooCommerce uses the PHP cookies to store data on the front end by using the class:

WC_Session_Handler to handle all sessions.

Class Path is: \wp-content\plugins\woocommerce\includes\class-wc-session-handler.php

Then, WooCommerce initializes the session in WooCommerce class. And it uses this method:

public function initialize_session():

WC_Session_Handler class contains a method has a function named

set_customer_session_cookie().

The above mentioned method was to start the cookie for a customer.

Qaisar Satti

Hi, I'm Qaisar Satti! I've been a developer for over 20 years, and now I love sharing what I've learned through tutorials and guides. Whether you're working with Magento, PrestaShop, or WooCommerce, my goal is to make your development journey a bit easier and more fun. When I'm not coding or writing, you can find me exploring new tech trends and hanging out with the amazing developer community. Thanks for stopping by, and happy coding!