You can do whatever you want, of course.
Sessions just make your code easier and portable and more people will be
able to understand what you're talking about.
Sessions are just a way to pass a variable between pages. You assign a
variable to the session, and you retrieve it on any other page that has a
session. that's it. You can use regular variables or arrays...
---John Holmes...
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From: PHPCoder [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: php-general [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, June 18, 2002 8:12 AM
Subject: [PHP] Sessions : see also Tracking file downloads
HI
While waiting for responses on my first question, I've done some reading
on sessions, and came up with the following questions:
First, I have been coding with PHP for a while without knowing about
sessions, and have completed a couple of rather large projects without
using sessions as such, yet, much of what I have read on sessions, I
have done manually already by creating my own unique id's and
passing them on via url to the subsequent pages.
So, here is my question.
Is sessions basically just that, made easier , or are there
fundamental differences/advantages. I know (now after reading a bit)
about the use of cookies etc if availale when using sessions, and that
you cannot overwrite a session variable by passing it via url, but are
those the only differences? So, basically, do you really HAVE to use
sessions, or is it like most other things in life; there are more than
one way to skin a cat. Are there set rules or guidelines to when one
would definately absolutely have to use sessions?
Thanks
Hope I make sense...
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