Re: Newbie asks about multi-lingual website strategies

Jeff Benetti wrote: > Am I correct that if two people are logged on using two different languages > that the session var will keep track of the different users (by IP I assume) > and the server won’t mess up? Sessions are per-user and are not global (you'd need to use something like memcache or similar for global persistence). PHP is different from e.g. ASP/JSP which implement a "Share everything" system, vs PHP's "Share nothing" (these are real terms believe it or not!). Sessions usually work via a cookie that PHP set's automatically the is stored for the duration of their visit on your site (till they restart their webbrowser). By default the cookie is called PHPSESSID. If a user has cookies disabled PHP can rewrite your HTML URLs on the fly to include the argument on the GET vars (sess_use_trans_id) but this is far from reliable. HTHs Col