OCIPLogon (fwd)

Hi! OCIPLogon documentation page says: "OCIPLogon -- Connect to an Oracle database and log on using a persistant connection. Returns a new session. [...] OCIPLogon() creates a persistent connection to an Oracle 8 database and logs on." What I did not understand: 1) "Returns a new session". This means that it is created a new session that overwrites the existed one? 2) What exactly means here "persistant connection"? I know theoretically, what it means, but in this very practical situation how it really works? Does it means that: a) connection descriptor returned by function must be registered using session_register() in order to be available for subsequent pages? <? $c = OCIPLogon("test", "user"); session_register("c"); ?> b) at the end of current page there is no need to call OCILogoff? $ cat 1.php <? $c = OCIPLogon("test", "user"); session_register("c"); echo "<a href=\"2.php\">2.php</a>"; ?> $ cat 2.php <? session_start(); // performing query of database using connection descriptor // from $c OCILogoff($c); ?> Thx, Radu -- Radu Filip Network Administrator @CCTI | tuiasi.ro radu@tuiasi.ro ccti@tuiasi.ro http://socrate.tuiasi.ro/ http://www.ccti.tuiasi.ro/