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Posted by "Richard Lynch" on 11/14/05 22:17
On Fri, November 11, 2005 6:59 pm, Jasper Bryant-Greene wrote:
> GamblerZG wrote:
>> What is the purpose of sessions extension?
>>
>> The reason I ask is because learning to deal with all its functions,
>> ini
>> options and quirks took me _much_ more time than writing pure-php
>> replacement. (That is, without using session_set_save_handler().)
>
> I realise that yours might be a special case, but for most situations
> I
> have only had to do session_start() and then simply used $_SESSION as
> if
> it were any other array with the simple difference that it persists
> across requests. When done with the session, use session_destroy() if
> you feel the need.
>
> I'm not sure how that could be harder than writing a pure-PHP
> replacement for the session extension...
The FIRST time one uses PHP session_start() et al, it tends to be a
lot of wading through and taking the wrong path and...
Once you figure out that you need:
<?php
session_start();
?>
at the top of every page, and to just read/write session data with:
$_SESSION
it gets real easy.
But it ain't easy the first time.
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