note 8704 added to Session handling functions

Newbie note: I wanted to track sessions using PHP4's built in session handling routines using NT4.0 SP6+ Apache + MySQL. I got a simple MySQL auth script working, but couldn't get the damn session variables made available to pages other than the page where session_register("varname") was used. this is what worked in short: page 1: 1) Do the MySQL thing 2) check to see if I get a result back 3) no - sorry bub no can do! 4) Yep - welcome back old friend! session_start(); //NOT start_session()!! session_register("name"); session register("time"); //etc. $sid = session_id(); header ("Location: main.php?SID=$sid"); //pass the sid to the next page, not sure if the SID=$sid is necessary now, but I'll leave it in anyway. page 2: session_start(); <-REQUIRED! on every page though? echo $name; echo $GLOBALS["name"]; //both seem to work, but not without the session_start()! argh, this was frustrating, but I am pretty new to php. The fun is in the learning! This stuff is way cool. http://www.php.net/manual/ref.session.php