note 58403 deleted from function.session-start by nlopess

Note Submitter: Tom ---- 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.