Re: A stupid question?

Shelley Shyan wrote:

Hi all, Maybe this is a somehow stupid question. I want to know how php could know whether session_start() has been called, that is, whether session has been started. I Googled, but got little help. Thank you for help! Any tip is greatly appreciated. Regards, Shelley

http://us3.php.net/session_id is what you are looking for. Look at the notes for the "Return Values" section "session_id() returns the session id for the current session or the empty string ("") if there is no current session (no current session id exists)." So, something like this will do. <?php $sid = session_id(); if ( $sid == '' ) { // No session started yet. } else { // Session has been started. } ?> Jim