Re: PHP Sessions?

From:	rory walsh	Date:	Wed, 02 Mar 2005 21:37:27 +0000
Subject:	Re: PHP Sessions?
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Yes I see what you mean. I only wanted to start a session IF the user logged in, but I see your point, the session can be started as soon as anyone opens the main page. I'll give it a go and see if that helps, cheers, Rory. Chris W. Parker wrote:

rory walsh <mailto:rorywalsh@ear.ie>
    on Wednesday, March 02, 2005 1:26 PM said:
The problem there is that I have to test if the user has logged on so I need to include the if statement? Can the session_start not be called from within an if statement? Does it really have to be the very first thing in the script, if so I imagine that this means a single script cannot be used to manage a complete website?
No session_start(); can go anywhere. It's just that it appears that your logic is setup in such a way that session_start(); is not being called when you need it be. By putting it before everything else you can avoid this. And as well, is there a reason you wouldn't want to just start the session at the beginning of the page? I mean, why wait till the user has submitted the form to start the session? Chris.