| re: Quick Session Question
Kevin Thorpe wrote:[color=blue]
> Jason Telisch wrote:
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>> I read and reread the PHP manual about sessions, and I have a quick
>> question. What causes the session id to change? I tried destroying
>> the session and unsetting the session vars, but it maintains the same id.
>>
>> Just so you know, I don't need to make the session id change for any
>> reason. I'd just like to know what to avoid since I'm going to be
>> storing data the user enters with their sessionid and I'd like to make
>> sure that they can still access it through their entire visit.[/color]
>
>
> The session id shouldn't change. It's randomly generated when the user
> enters your website and is then passed back by the browser using cookies
> or as part of the url on each subsequent request. This id is then used
> as the key to the session variables.
>
> Destroying the session variables simply destroys the contents of the
> session. The id and the empty session will continue to exist.
>[/color]
So, when the client deletes the cookie, the session id will be lost. If
the client continues to visit the site, he will receive a new cookie
with a new session id.
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