Posted by John Nichel on 04/28/05 16:30

Dan wrote:
> Hi all.
>
> I taught myself PHP before the frenzy over register_globals.
> After a reasonable break from the language, I'm back for more.
>
> I'm building a site where I'll be holding a lot of variables in memory
> for each session. How do I do that? Apparently I can't use
> session_register() if register_globals is turned off. I've read a little
> about the consequences of writing bad scripts with register_globals on
> ... I'm fine with this explanation. I agree that I don't want people
> injecting variables into my session. What I want is for ME to be able to
> set variables and remember them throughout the session. How do I do that?
>

Use the super-global _SESSION array...

session_start();
// -- Some code -- //
$_SESSION['foo'] = 'bar';

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John C. Nichel
ÜberGeek
KegWorks.com
716.856.9675
john@kegworks.com

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