Re: Hi - newbie questions...

Miles Thompson wrote:

3rd does php have application like asp??

Well, PHP is essentially an application like asp in that it parses a script which normally has a .php extension and either executes commands embedded within it or echoes HTML. The output from a PHP script is straight HTML. Other than that, you had better re-phrase the question.

I think he meant 'application()' - application-scope variables, like session-scope variables. The answer is 'no', but you can 'roll your own' functionality pretty easily if you need to. Application variable were/are a big pain in the ASP world, ime, because people abuse them. There's rarely MUCH data you need to pass around globally and modify like that that wouldn't be better off in a database.

4th sessions, can they be accessed from an asp script and the other way round?

No, they cannot. They are specific to PHP.

not directly, but an ASP script on the same domain should be able to read the cookie storing the session ID, then pull the info out from a database (if you're using a db backed to store the session info). Short answer is no - probably for the questioner's needs, but it's possible it can be done in some unique situations.