best method for unsetting a whole session

[sg]

Hi,

I use sessions on my site and i have an admin page where I want to be able
to unset all session variables and destroy the session.

for the moment I do :
<?
session_unset() ;
session_destroy ();
?>

This works perfectly fine for me.

BUT (yes this post has a point)

I just saw in the PHP Manual (for 'session_unset( )')
"Note: If $_SESSION (or $HTTP_SESSION_V ARS for PHP 4.0.6 or less) is used,
use unset() to unregister session variable. i.e. $_SESSION = array();"

As a matter of fact I am using the $_SESSION superglobal to manipulate my
session variables. So I think this applies to me but I don't really
understand how I should unset my session variables. And the unset() manual
page doesn't really help me either.

Can somebody clear that up for me?

Sebastien

[R. Rajesh Jeba Anbiah]

"sg" <sg******@frees urf.fr> wrote in message news:<bn******* ***@news-reader1.wanadoo .fr>...

Hi,

I use sessions on my site and i have an admin page where I want to be able
to unset all session variables and destroy the session.

for the moment I do :
<?
session_unset() ;
session_destroy ();
?>

This works perfectly fine for me.

BUT (yes this post has a point)

I just saw in the PHP Manual (for 'session_unset( )')
"Note: If $_SESSION (or $HTTP_SESSION_V ARS for PHP 4.0.6 or less) is used,
use unset() to unregister session variable. i.e. $_SESSION = array();"

As a matter of fact I am using the $_SESSION superglobal to manipulate my
session variables. So I think this applies to me but I don't really
understand how I should unset my session variables. And the unset() manual
page doesn't really help me either.

If you use $_SESSION superglobal,
use $_SESSION = array(); to unset the whole session array
use unset($_SESSION['foo']) to unset foo of session array.

But, don't use unset($_SESSION ) to unset the whole session array.

So, for in your case, use
$_SESSION = array(); //instead of session_unset() ;
session_destroy (); //destroy

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