Re: Legal $_SESSION names

On Fri, 2009-05-22 at 11:30 -0400, tedd wrote: > Hi gang: > > While we're discussing what's legal in css, here's a couple of things > I've found about sessions. > > I found that starting a session with a number doesn't work. > > $myvar = $_SESSION['1myvar']; > > I also found that dumping a session to a variable with the same name > may cause problems, such as: > > $myvar = $_SESSION['myvar']; > > Regardless of what anyone may say to the contrary, it doesn't work > everywhere. I found that out the hard way. The fix is simply to use a > different name for the variable, such as: > > $my_var = $_SESSION['myvar']; > > Hopes this help someone. > > Cheers, > > tedd > -- > ------- > http://sperling.com > http://ancientstones.com > http://earthstones.com > The second case won't work if you have register globals turned on I believe, as it will attempt to create $_SESSION['myvar'] as $myvar. I believe that RG might have something to do with the first as well. I seem to remember a thread a while back talking about sessions not being able to use numbered indexes because they are a special super global. Ash www.ashleysheridan.co.uk