Re: SESSION values show up days later!
| From: | Paul M Foster | Date: | Sat, 28 Mar 2009 04:27:20 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: SESSION values show up days later! | ||
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On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 02:39:22PM -0700, Mary Anderson wrote:
> Hi all,
> I use session variables to store values from one page to another on
> my website.
> Alas, sometimes, but not always, the values persist from one
> invocation of the script to another!
> Just how, exactly, do I make them go away when a user exits the
> program? I assume my users will not always be logging out explicitly.
> Thanks.
> maryfran
Unset the variable. Session variables (as far as I know) will persist as
long as the user keeps open his browser, or until they time out. But you
can do unset($_SESSION['myvar']) to unset a particular variable at any
time (assuming you have previously called session_start()).
Paul
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Paul M. Foster