Re: Sessions

Greetings, "Tom Shaw". In reply to Your message dated Sunday, September 14, 2008, 20:03:13, > Is what I'm saying below 100% true? I'd say, 99%. There are some technical issues included, which critical in understanding session mechanics and debugging any causes. > When you start a session using session_start() and start adding indexes to > the session super global array a small cookie is set on the clients side Small cookie WOULD BE SET, when you complete transaction (means, when user receive your page). > that keeps track of the user, and the session index data that you create is > stored only in the memory on the server side unless specified in the PHP > file to store the session data in some specified directory or means db. As other mentioned already, PHP sessions stored on disk by default. > Plus you can access and manipulate the session array just like you could any > other array. Pure truth. As a sidenote, sessions different from cookies in the next way: You can access cookies only on the next request, but you can access session variables immediately after you set them. -- Sincerely Yours, ANR Daemon <anrdaemon@freemail.ru>