for creating yii session Yii::app()->session['userid'] = "value"; You can get value like this $sleep = Yii::app()->session['userid']; And unset session like unset(Yii::app()->session['userid']); # Remove the session In case of user signs out , you have to remove all the session. Yii::app()->session->clear(); After this, you need to remove actual data from server Yii::app()->session->destroy();