multiple sessions

Hi, all -- I am trying to integrate phpbb into our web site and do so such that we set the login info before getting into the forum. We have a user 'x' who has a numeric user_id 'y' in the phpbb system that we'll need to set. We store that user_id in our system for other uses as well. Our cookie is simply named PHPSESSID and we usually see the session data by looking in $_SESSION. The phpbb cookie is named phpbb2mysql_data and has other good stuff in it. When I am in the phpbb code I want to be able to look at the PHPSESSID session data so that I can extract the user_id and pre-set it and then go on to create the phpbb cookie and so on. When I get there, though, I find that $_SESSION is empty. How do I look at the data stored in another cookie or session -- if I'm even using the terminology correctly? TIA & HAND :-D -- David T-G * There is too much animal courage in (play) davidtg@justpickone.org * society and not sufficient moral courage. (work) davidtgwork@justpickone.org -- Mary Baker Eddy, "Science and Health" http://justpickone.org/davidtg/ Shpx gur Pbzzhavpngvbaf Qrprapl Npg!