Multiple sessions on the same server

[raducosma]

I have an application that uses php4 sessions. The sessions are in /tmp
Now I want to make another application with session. But the sessions of the first application will not be overwrited by the second one?
For ex I set the session.gc_probability = 100 in php.ini or with set_ini in the first application so all the time the sessions for the 1-st application will be erased.

But if I add the second application I don't want that the sessions of this applications to be erased all the time.
In fact I'm wondering if it's possible to have 2 applications that uses sessions on the same server (well it would be tough if it would not be possible....I'm sure it is)

Any ideas?

[balsdorf]

I believe (and shoot me if I am wrong) that PHP won't overwrite other files. Your sessions should be fine. If you are worries about someone with a session in one application being able to use the other one, simply store an application ID in the session and check it each page load.

[Anon]

You can name the session with the function session_name

Check it out at
http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.session-name.php

/Staffan