Re: Learning PHP Sessions

This is really off-topic for this list, but... From my understanding of sessions, you really don't want session_start() in an if{} block. Every time you hit this script, it will have no memory of any session variables until you call session_start(). -Steve On Tuesday, October 30, 2001, at 02:30 PM, Matthew Tedder wrote:

<?php /* Hi,

    I'm new to PHP and am having trouble understanding how to use PHP
sessions.  My book tells in near the beginning how to start them and register
session variables, but I can't figure out how to destroy a session or later
read those session variables.  I'm also trying to do this across frames, but

can't even get it to work within a single page. Here's what I've learned so far and what my problems are: */ /* To start a session */ session_start(); /* To register a session variable */ session_register("myvar"); $myvar = "some value"; /* PROBLEM #1: From the above commands, I get a $PHPSESSID that seems to be globally available for use, but I cannot seem to read my values back out of the registered session variable from anywhere... I tried: */ print "$myvar\n"; /* and absolutely nothing is printed */ /* To destroy a session */ session_destroy(); /* PROBLEM #2: This says there is no session to destroy. It's rather strange because I can still print the $PHPSESSID value.. I've attached my code... */ ?> -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-db-unsubscribe@lists.php.net For additional commands, e-mail: php-db-help@lists.php.net To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net