Re: PHP Sessions

You can run an example test via browser to see it in action: ----------------------------- $name = isset($_GET['name']) ? $_GET['name'] : 'PHPSESSID'; echo 'Name: ' . $name . '<br/>'; session_name($name); session_start(); echo 'Cookie/Session name: '; echo session_name(); echo '<br />'; echo "Value: " . session_id(); -------------------------- Change ?name=SESSION_Name On Thu, Jan 27, 2022 at 11:39 AM Aziz Saleh <azizsaleh@gmail.com> wrote: > Your assumption is correct. > > When you create a session there are 2 ways it gets tracked. Via URLs or > via the session Cookie. By default, it is stored in Cookies when it can. > > So when you do session_name('TEST'), a cookie named TEST will be created > and it would have the value of the session id. > > > > On Thu, Jan 27, 2022 at 11:28 AM <paulf@quillandmouse.com> wrote: > >> Folks: >> >> I've been using session_start() and session_name('something') for years >> without thinking much about it. But I've started to wonder if there's >> an advantage to "naming" a session versus simply allowing PHP to assign >> a session ID to it. This had dredged up other questions I haven't been >> able to find the answers to. >> >> I have some finance software with various forms, and a menu to navigate >> to the different pages/forms. Assuming I run session_start() at the >> beginning of each page, under what circumstances would PHP actually >> create a new session with a new ID? >> >> I know there's a time limit on sessions in PHP, but is it reset for >> each access? >> >> From my experiments, if I'm connected to a single server, no matter >> what software I run on that server, using a specific running browser, >> I'll get the same session ID, according to session_id(). That is, if >> I'm connect to localhost (for example), in Firefox, I can visit any PHP >> software I've written on that server in any tab and get the same >> session ID. A different user will get a different session ID on their >> machine/browser. >> >> From what I can see, setting session name would only serve to give me a >> different session for each piece of software I write. (Assuming I tell >> each piece of software to set a different session name when it starts.) >> Is that right? >> >> Paul >> >> >> >> >> -- >> Paul M. Foster >> http://noferblatz.com >> http://quillandmouse.com >> >