Saving a few session variables before destroying session

[cardfan]

Have the following code to save a username/password before deleting a session, but variable value is empty. Are session vars pointers?, tried by reference and that didn't work either, so not sure why I'm losing variable values after session is destroyed.

$user = $SESSION['user'];
$pass = $SESSION['pass'];

//Function to destroy session
sessionReset();

if (!isset ($_SESSION)) session_start();

$SESSION['user'] = $user;
$SESSION['pass'] = $pass;

Thanks for any insight!

[cardfan]

Assume this is my problem?

Quote from php manual post -
"Remember that session_destroy() does not unset $SESSION at the moment it is executed. $SESSION is unset when the current script has stopped running."