Sessions help....

[Anon]

I am fairly new to sessions so I have a basic question about structure.

In my script it's just a user profile that would follow them till they close the browser. It will hold their username, firstname, lastname, email, and a friends list. These variables load from a MySQL database when they first sign-in and will follow them around. I load them and then start_session() ;
session_register("username") ;
session_register("firstname") ;
session_register("lastname") ;
session_register("email") ;
session_register("friends") ;

....now the question is on every page that my site goes to do I have to have that block of code to keep my variables around? or can I just load them on the first page and forget about registering them again (unless I need to change it's value right?).....

[Anon]

also is this the most optimal way to do it? Or is there a better way?

[Anon]

thats how i would do it

but on every page you need to have
session_start();

and thats all

[[deleted]]

You only have to register vars the first time. After that the vars are re-created from the session data.

Just make sure that every new var you want to put into the session gets registered.

[knickerlas]

Just so. ALso remember to session_start() on every page else you wont get anywhere!

Nick