note 58403 added to function.session-start

I ran into a problem with user authentication and sessions today- I was using PW hash values as user authentication and storing them as $_SESSION['pwhash'] for retrieval. But every time I tried to access the value from a different page the $_SESSION['pwhash'] would shift the H.L. bit by a small increment. say from 554b75a2848b39a9ae16abc24eaa1d73 to 514b75a2848b39a9ae16abc24eaa1d73 It seems like the problem was that I called the variable the same thing as I did in my SQL queries. (the column name was also 'pwhash') when I changed the session variable name to 'passcheck' it worked fine. Apologies if this is standard behavior and i'm not helping anyone, but it drove me nuts for a while. cheers. ---- Manual Page -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.session-start.php Edit -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=edit+58403 Delete: added to the manual -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+58403&report=yes&reason=added+to+the+manual Delete: bad code -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+58403&report=yes&reason=bad+code Delete: spam -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+58403&report=yes&reason=spam Delete: useless -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+58403&report=yes&reason=useless Delete: non-english -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+58403&report=yes&reason=non-english Delete: already in docs -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+58403&report=yes&reason=already+in+docs Delete: other reasons -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+58403&report=yes Reject -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=reject+58403&report=yes Search -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php