Posted by Rory Walsh on 03/02/05 23:37

Yes I see what you mean. I only wanted to start a session IF the user
logged in, but I see your point, the session can be started as soon as
anyone opens the main page. I'll give it a go and see if that helps, cheers,
Rory.


Chris W. Parker wrote:
> rory walsh <mailto:rorywalsh@ear.ie>
> on Wednesday, March 02, 2005 1:26 PM said:
>
>
>>The problem there is that I have to test if the user has logged on so
>>I need to include the if statement? Can the session_start not be
>>called from within an if statement? Does it really have to be the
>>very first thing in the script, if so I imagine that this means a
>>single script cannot be used to manage a complete website?
>
>
> No session_start(); can go anywhere. It's just that it appears that your
> logic is setup in such a way that session_start(); is not being called
> when you need it be. By putting it before everything else you can avoid
> this.
>
> And as well, is there a reason you wouldn't want to just start the
> session at the beginning of the page? I mean, why wait till the user has
> submitted the form to start the session?
>
>
>
> Chris.

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