Try as below. Note both the global and the session_register statements.
> function set session()
> {
> global $my_session_var,$HTTP_SESSION_VARS;
> session_start();
> $my_session_var = "Blah blah";
> session_register($HTTP_SESSION_VARS['my_session_var']);
> }
Kirk
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael Champagne [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Friday, March 23, 2001 1:32 PM
> To: PHP General Mailing List
> Subject: [PHP] I don't understand HTTP_SESSION_VARS
>
>
> I'm still having problems with this. I was able to get
> sessions and session
> variables working ok with register_globals=on, but I had read
> that it was
> better not to keep register_globals on so I turned it off and
> I'm trying to
> figure out how this works now.
>
> I'm registering a variable in one function say like this:
> function set session()
> {
> global $my_session_var;
> session_start();
> $my_session_var = "Blah blah";
> session_register('my_session_var');
> }
>
> Then I'm trying to read it in another function like this:
> function read_session()
> {
> global $HTTP_SESSION_VARS;
> session_start();
> echo ($HTTP_SESSION_VARS[my_session_var]);
> }
> Michael Champagne, Software Engineer
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