note 18974 added to ref.session

The current documentation on the use of $_SESSION in favour of session_register() omits to mention that registering your variables in the manner: $_SESSION['cheese']='salmon'; does *NOT* implicitly start a session in the way that you might expect: session_register($cheese); to. This is not mentioned in the documentation, and the statement about not mixing use of $_SESSION and older session functions leads you to believe it should be handled automagically. In fact you must explicitly call session_start() before you assign/retrieve values to/from $_SESSION, eg: session_start(); if (!isset($_SESSION['loggedIn'])) { $_SESSION['loggedIn']=false; } elseif ($_SESSION['loggedIn']) { #Extra code if user logged in } -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.session.php http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=edit+18974 http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+18974 http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=reject+18974