From: Richard Lynch [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Don't cram things into $_SESSION. Use this:
session_register('uid');
global $uid;
$uid = $uinfo[0];
With PHP 4.2, you don't have to use session_register. You can do it
exactly like the OP is. I do it all the time. Whether that is a
feature or a bug, I don't know.
It happens to work because that happens to be how Sessions are
implemented
this week.
Programming 101:
Rule #27: Relying on implementation minutia instead of documented
functions
is just a Bad Idea (tm).
Use the functions that are documented to work. Anything else is a
HACK
and
subject to break without notice.
In PHP 4.3 or 5.0 or 7.3.1, when it *DOESN'T* work anymore and you
have a
zillion lines of code cramming junk into $_SESSION scattered all
through
your application, don't come crying to me. :-)
Always a good method to follow, but the manual says you can use the
$_SESSION method I gave. There is no need to use session_register() or
the like. I would imagine that the older method would be depreciated
eventually. It's a whole lot easier to just treat sessions like a
variable without that whole register/unregister stuff.
The manual actually cautions against using session_register/unregister
if register_globals is OFF.
http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.session.php
---John Holmes...
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