Sessions torn to pieces

[brianmckenna]

Hi all,
I have been attempting to utilze the seesion variable on my page, and it looks like others are interested in using this attribute of PHP too.

I've read through the man pages numerous times, but unfortunatly, as stated in the second paragraph, I am not familiar with the PHPLIB session management.

I'm wondering if I and the others are heading down the right track by learning how to use sessions? Of course learning more can never be "wrong".

I myself just want to pass on a session variable when a link is clicked so my index page can "fill" in the content between the header and footer. In other words...if the variable passed equals "resume", the database is accessed and the directory and url of the resume page is obtained, then popped into include ($an[dir] / $an[url] .php)

My reason for attempting to use the sessions is so no matter what page you access, the address bar reads www.domain.com, not www.domain.com/?variable=value.

Funny how someone suggested to just use a frameset with one frame, which completely blew by me before. It's a wonderful idea, but I feel like challenging myself to learn sessions.

Any thoughts? Am I just being stubborn? (Don't really answer that LOL) Sessions look fun, but are rather intimidating to us "newborn" PHP apprentices.

[brianmckenna]

I am accessing content on the same site, there is no outside access as of yet

[mistcat]

Well... have you tried something simple like this just to start getting comfortable with the syntax and what not?

<?
session_start();
$_SESSION['count']++;

echo $_SESSION['count'];
?>

[Anon]

There is an article on phplib sessions on this site.

phpbuilder.com/columns/chad19990414.php3

I thought that the phplib documentation was fairly clear.

1. You need to create a database table for the sessions. The default class expects that it will be like this:
   +---------+-------------+------+-----+---------+-------+
   | Field | Type | Null | Key | Default | Extra |
   +---------+-------------+------+-----+---------+-------+
   | sid | varchar(32) | | PRI | | |
   | name | varchar(32) | | PRI | | |
   | val | text | YES | | NULL | |
   | changed | varchar(14) | | | | |
   +---------+-------------+------+-----+---------+-------+

2. declare a session class to use the table.

//----- extending ct_sql container
class giCt extends CT_Sql {
var $classname = "giCt";
var $database_table = "sessions";
var $database_class = "giDB";
}

//----- class collectsession extends Session
class giSession extends Session {
var $classname = "giSession";
var $mode = "cookie";
var $fallback = "get";
var $lifetime = 0;
var $that_class = "giCt";
}

3. Then declare a new session in your code.

page_open("sess"=>"giSession");
make variables available to each page

and a

page_close(); at the end of the page writes any new or changed variables to the db.

You can var_dump($sess)