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10.3 Using sessions

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Sessions are great for storing temporary data about your visitors, particularly when you do not want that data to be accessible from outside of your server. Using sessions before PHP 4.1 was much harder than it is today - if you are used to having to use functions to set and unset session variables, you should pay extra-special attention to this text on sessions, because things have changed substantially as a result of the superglobal $_SESSION array.

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michael@xorgonix.com - 06 Sep 2008

The posting above was made back in about 2002... for some reason the owner of this site keeps refreshing the date to make it appear like the posting was just made... ok, not a biggy, but i am curious as to why he has ignored emails asking him to stop that.

michael@xorgonix.com - 06 Sep 2008

what a great site!

my only comment for the session/cookie part was a bit of discussion of the length of life of these objects, and how and why you'e set 'em a certain way.

have to say i really like the level, and the language of the book. i've been working with php for a while now, but some of the "grey" areas have been brightened up quite a bit by your writing.

Thanks!

michael

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