Bug #17598: no way to detect a session without creating a session

From: adam@adeptsoftware.com Operating system: WinXP PHP version: 4.2.1 PHP Bug Type: Session related Bug description: no way to detect a session without creating a session There is no way to detect if a session exists, without creating a session. This can trigger warnings like this in cookie detectors: This page wishes to set the cookie PHPSESSID="bd977b12c9da97f1ba0b07e4fe25a176" A page needs to generate differently based on whether a user is "logged in" (a session exists) or just a "visitor". You shouldn't have to create a session to know if it exists. I suppose you could manually check cookies & the URL etc but shouldn't there be a function for this? -- Edit bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=17598&edit=1 -- Fixed in CVS: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=17598&r=fixedcvs Fixed in release: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=17598&r=alreadyfixed Need backtrace: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=17598&r=needtrace Try newer version: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=17598&r=oldversion Not developer issue: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=17598&r=support Expected behavior: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=17598&r=notwrong Not enough info: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=17598&r=notenoughinfo Submitted twice: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=17598&r=submittedtwice register_globals: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=17598&r=globals