Re: What is the purpose of sessions extension?

On Fri, November 11, 2005 6:59 pm, Jasper Bryant-Greene wrote: > GamblerZG wrote: >> What is the purpose of sessions extension? >> >> The reason I ask is because learning to deal with all its functions, >> ini >> options and quirks took me _much_ more time than writing pure-php >> replacement. (That is, without using session_set_save_handler().) > > I realise that yours might be a special case, but for most situations > I > have only had to do session_start() and then simply used $_SESSION as > if > it were any other array with the simple difference that it persists > across requests. When done with the session, use session_destroy() if > you feel the need. > > I'm not sure how that could be harder than writing a pure-PHP > replacement for the session extension... The FIRST time one uses PHP session_start() et al, it tends to be a lot of wading through and taking the wrong path and... Once you figure out that you need: <?php session_start(); ?> at the top of every page, and to just read/write session data with: $_SESSION it gets real easy. But it ain't easy the first time. -- Like Music? http://l-i-e.com/artists.htm