Could someone explain to me how to run sessions

[Pobega]

I have been reading up on php.net but I still don't fully understand it. How do you go about keeping a login running through session data? (I'm currently just making users Auth themselves every time they do something which is very irritating).

[brandtj]

First, this function has to be the first function called on any page that you want to have sessions running on:

session_start ();

Anytime you want to set a session variable, use:

$_SESSION['key'] = 'value';

Any time you want to read a session variable, use:

echo $_SESSION['key'];

That's about all there is to it! 😃 If you wanted to pass an array, you could use:

$_SESSION['key'] = serialize ($myarray);
$redo = unserialize ($_SESSION['key']);

[Pobega]

Thanks, I ended up deciding to just go to cookies for logins though. Thanks again, this will come in handy sometime in the future.