restoring sessions

Anon

Need help with sessions...

I've done many things in PHP, but never used sessions (mostly just a single cookie)...
Now I need more than that and got into sessions.

I've read many tutorial and they are all nice and everything but in none of them i couldn't find how to restore a session.

I tried something like this:
<i>
session_start();
session_register('count');

$count++;
echo "You've been here $count times.";
</i>

But when I close the browser, reload it in another one, the whole thing starts to run with a new session.
The old one is still there, but i don't know how to resume it. There is no PHPSESSID cookie set in the cookies dir (I enabled the lowest security level of the browser).
So I tried to pass the session id with GET/POST and now I simple don't know how to resume the old session.

I know, this is propably a lame question/problem but I couldn't find any tutorial that would explain the whole stuff.
They are all written in the same was - and this session "resuming" is only mentioned as if it was something narural 😉
Ok, maybe I'm stupid, but if somebody would tell me how to do this, all my problems would be solved 😉)

So I need a way to resume the old session (from a cookie and from the GET/POST argument).

Thanks in advance!
greetings edmund

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"There is no PHPSESSID cookie set in the cookies dir"

That's becuase the default session-cookie lifetime is set to zero, which means it is erased on browser-close.

Check your php.ini, there is a setting you can change to force the cookie to be valid for X seconds, regardless of wether the browser is closed or not.

(remember to keep the session max-lifetime on the server the same/longer as the value on the browser, or you'll get very funky session behaviour)

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