Re: Re: [PHP3] Sessions - PHP Vs. ASP

On Fri, 30 Jun 2000, Richard Lynch wrote: > In article <20000620162553.28725.qmail@web3706.mail.yahoo.com>, > thomasedisonjr@yahoo.com ("Thomas Edison Jr.") wrote: > > > How different are PHP sessions from ASP sessions? How > > do u really use sessions in PHP? I'm from an ASP > > background and i always found sessions to be one of > > the most usefull things in ASP. > > ASP sessions use cookies, and if the user refuses cookies, you're screwed, > but Microsoft buries that fact 'way in their docs, and mostly refers to > session variables as if they just always work by magic. > > PHP assumes you have a clue, and thus are willing to a little extra work > to get the functionality you think is best, and provides a slightly > lower-level support. > > In particular, you need to do: > > session_start(); > > at the top of any page using sessions, and There is a feature called auto start. What it does? It automatically starts the session at request startup. To enable it, set session.auto_start to 1 in your config file or using appropiate web server configuration directives. - Sascha