In this post to his site Paul Jones makes some suggestions about how to handle session cookies (PHP's default session handling mechanism) and requests/responses using the PSR-7 structure.

One of the great things about PHP is its session handling capabilities. One call to session_start() and a huge amount of heavy lifting is done for you. It’s a great aid when writing page scripts.

However, as you start to need finer control over the HTTP response in your project, some of the automatic session behaviors begin to get in the way. In particular, when you are using PSR-7 to build your HTTP response, you realize that session_start() and session_regenerate_id() both automatically do the equivalent of calling setcookie() to write headers directly to the output. This means you cannot buffer those calls into the Response object for later sending.

How then can we use PHP’s session handling, when we want finer control over when and how cookies get sent?

He suggests that you do two things. First, disable PHP itself from automatically sending the cookie via some ini_set calls. The second is to do the session ID comparison manually and perform the related action (either allowing or sending a new ID on failure). He includes example code showing it in action and also mentions some of the shortcomings of the approach around cache and limiter headers.