Posted by Matthew on 11/19/07 19:49

Rik Wasmus emailed this:
> On Mon, 19 Nov 2007 20:38:05 +0100, Rik Wasmus
> <luiheidsgoeroe@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Mon, 19 Nov 2007 20:25:25 +0100, Matthew <matthew@spamkiller.com>
>> wrote:
>>> My server runs PHP version 4.4.3.
>>>
>>> I'm successfully creating a session and can set and retrieve my own
>>> session variables.
>>
>> OK
>>
>>> As far as I can tell the $_SESSION['uid'] variable should be created
>>> automatically when session_start() is called. When I retrieve this
>>> variable however it is empty.
>>
>> Nope. Unless you name it that way.
>> <http://nl2.php.net/manual/en/ref.session.php>
>>
>> The default 'session.name' is PHPSESSID, which you can normally will
>> NOT find in $_SESSION, but in one of the $_REQUEST arrays (and thus
>> obviously in $_REQUEST). $_COOKIE['PHPSESSID'] _if_ the session works
>> with cookies, optionally in the $_POST or $_GET array in case of a
>> transparant session id (which is not recommandable).
>>
>> If you choose another name for a session, this should be done with
>> session_name('custom_name_of_session') BEFORE the call to
>> session_start():
>> <http://nl2.php.net/manual/en/function.session-name.php>

Thanks for both replies Rik.

> Addendum: if you're just curious what your session id actually is, use
> session_id().

What about the cookie, how do I retrieve that, I need to add it to a
database table?

Cheers and sorry for the newbie questions.

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