• How can I check a users login and password on every page visit?
• How can I maintain data across pages for a visitor?
• Does PHP have support for sessions?
• How can I know that a user has left a page?
• How can I send a users password from a HTML form back to the server encrypted?
• How can I log users out of a page after a certain time period?
• How can I keep session variables?
• Can I see a quick example of sessions in PHP4?
• I can not get sessions to work with IIS 4.0 and PHP 4.0 beta pl1 has anyone confirmed it to work? I haven't had any problems on linux.
• I don't understand the documentation about session_set_save_handler(). Please, help me
• If I use session_register($object), the class is rewrite to stdClass, and no methods will be avaible. How can I solve this problem?
• How can I force a member to login?
• How to pass login and password from first level script to third level script (that means one script is included in another,like that 3 levels)?
• What are the advantages of storing session data in a database and not a file?
• Should I use database session handling or file session handling?
• How can I make sure a session stays open during a long file download?
• I'm running win98se wiith pws4 but some how my session not working, I read one article that ask to install as cgi mode but i dont know how to do that
• Stuck setting session_register() Using PHP4 with Apache 1.3.9 on WIN32 : : Cannot send session cookie - headers already sent by my.php
• Why can I not get session variables from functions within classes?
• Can't get session propagation to work. Already compiled with --enabled-trans-sid. Am I supposed to code url in a certain way? Thanks
• Is a PHP4 session ID unique forever or only unique in the sense that no two active sessions have the same ID?
• I'm new to sessions and cookies , where should I start?
• How is it possible to use trans-sid with .wml pages? (& has to be replaced by &)
• How to create a unique session per browser instance? Multiple browser windows are accessing the same session variables which I don't want.
• how do you pass a class object as a session variable?
• How can I disconnect from session one and start session two (within a single page), without destroying session one's data?
• Sessions didn't work when using header()
• Is there a way to trigger a user-defined function when a session expires?
• Common problem: Warning: open(/tmp\sess_34a93af8048f549fef9a9e90ba04b232, O_RDWR) failed
• How can i give a max life time for a session, if the session is idle for some time?
• Why can't I browse an index.php3 page, instead, I get a file download option?
• How can I make, that a $var can get read after several pages too?Enter name->page->write Name
• Can you tell me why I always get ?PHPSESSID=fc912e31cae17760fd97ce9f4684ae18 attached to all my link
• I put a value on session and session work correct same page but in another page this value undifined
• While using sessions, if the browser's back button is clicked the page expires. How to avoid this?
• Why are session variables being replaced instead of appended?
• session_id do not persist from one page to another
• session_id does not persist from one page to another

Unanswered Questions

• Upon setting the session value, I do not get a true for session_register. Hence I am not able to access the value in any other page ? Any suggestions
• I'm using PHP4 with IIS4.0 on NT4.0. I can't seem to get sessions to work. If I set "session.auto_start=1", IIS locks up and I can only reboot.
• It is said that PHP4 running on IIS4 can only use sessions if it's run in "cgi" mode...how can this be done?
• How to get a persistent connection on all pages?
• My session variables update erratically. All the pages use the same code and sometimes they update fine and other times they don't. Any ideas why?
• how do i know when my site visitor closes the browser so that i can do a session_destroy(); in order to clear the session??
• How do I preserve session data through a proxy server. Works fine on dial up but not with proxy?
• Is there a way to trigger a user-defined function when a session expires?
• when sending a form in a secure (SSL) area i get "page not found" error most of the times , WHY?, im using session_start()
• I cannot access the session variable from my one of the pages. I notice its session id is different from the other webpages I have.
• Multiple sessions from same page
• How to register session vars in script that uses require(); - submits to self - but redirects to another script using header(location: page2.php);
• If included and required files inherit the variable scope up to the line they appear on, why aren't my SESSION variables available in my include file?
• Is there a way to get information about other opened sessions and accessing their data ?
• If using session "file", when does PHP write to that file? on each var set or at the end of the page?
• Can't register variables within a function????? function foo_x(){ session_register("x") ... }
• Is there a way to keep stateful information in Java objects within a session between different PHP loads
• HELP!! How do I use trans-sid & ob_gzhandler as it currently loses the session id whenever I gzip the output?
• I am using PHP4 and windows & Apache1.3.x..but I couldn't ab;e to use session I did all the necesarry changes in the PHP.INI file
• How do I submit a value into a form field from a pop up box, using PHP?
• One of my pages is not able to access Session variables. The same page works well on other machines.
• Page reads Session variables, works well on one PC, doesn't work on others.Is session PC dependant?
• Warning: open(/tmp\sess_ etc. even with php.ini reading: session.save_path = "C:\winnt\temp";
• how can we find out other's password by using their ID?
• how to start RAS in my NT machine?
• Sessions DO work with header() with the pack easyphp from www.easyphp.org ... how do they do this ?
• Mutiple browser windows
• What is the cause of this Warning: open(/tmp\sess_ad28f43d294538873c0533a9b5d1055f, O_RDWR) failed:
• What is the cause of this Warning: open(/tmp\sess_ad28f43d294538873c0533a9b5d1055f, O_RDWR) failed:
• Can't get sessions to work with php.exe rather than Apache module- I get "headers already sent."
• No of the other answers work-Common problem: Warning: open(/tmp\sess_34a93af8048f549fef9a9e.....
• How can i session out a user when user visited another web site in between his session?
• After i've logged users out, if they click refresh on the browser it logs them in again, why?
• Session ID being modified mid-session under FreeBSD4.3. How to prevent it?
• Session ID being modified mid-session under FreeBSD4.3. How to prevent it?
• Session ID being modified mid-session under FreeBSD4.3. How to prevent it?
• How can I use cURL functions to maintain state with an ASP page accessed via a server-side post emul
• I can't get sessions to write to files under PHP4/Windows2000/Apache1.3.xx
• The session variable will be reset everytime I call the php page.
• why can we start session when a user start application or web site
• Session not working with Php 4.21 / Apache 1.36 under XP
• Session not working with Php 4.21 / Apache 1.36 under XP (php compiled as a module).
• Why my script doesn´t work when I update to php 4.2.1??? I set register_globals = On.
• upon registering values with session_register() those values r not displaying on futher pages why?
• How can you change two frames (submenu and welcome page) after someone logs in with a session?
• How can you change two frames (submenu and welcome page) after someone logs in with a session?
• Creating new browser window causes two windows to share same session, and alter each other's state.
• Can I load and store information just once and share it among multiple sessions by different users?
• Recieving an error when using session_start(). open(/tmp\sess_540ded508edf231c47fe85bd970f936a, O_RD
• How do I log out users from a page if there was NO ACTIVITY after a certain period of time?
• Problem with session variables and PHP version 4.0.4pl1
• I have problems with declaration of session variables in PHP version 4.0.4pl1
• How do I make a variable persistent between scripts?
• How do I restrict a user from logging more than once at the same time (from different computers)?
• How do I restrict a user from logging more than once at the same time (from different computers)?
• How do I restrict a user from logging more than once at the same time (from different computers)?
• How do I restrict a user from logging more than once at the same time (from different computers)?
• I can not see a session variable on the second page of a project using windows xp and php 4.3
• How do I change a session variable using a form submitted value, once it has been set?
• php/oracle - After login in on first page , how to carry logging state across pages
• How do i get this activity log session to work??
• I am getting this error in the browser: Warning: write failed: Generic file system error (111) in Un
• When i start a session and write session_start() on my form page ,my form don't maintain cache.
• When i start a session and write session_start() on my form page ,my form don't maintain cache.
• when I redirect using a META REFRESH, I can't access my $_SESSION variables(using netscape but ie ok
• How store objects so that they are accessible to any user session (like in ASP Application object)?
• How do I terminate access to page in certain amount of entries and time using sessions and MySQL?
• How do I terminate access to page in certain amount of entries and time using sessions and MySQL?
• is it possible to save the session_id to a database, and later check if this session_id is alive ?
• I have changed the session.save_path in php.ini but it still won't initiate
• Using Sessions causes me "Disc quota" errors, how do I shedule cleanups?
• Can I rewrite the function that appends "&PHPSESSID=blahblahblah" without having to recompile php?
• Sessions work fine on my local test system but when I FTP session variables often don't get passed.
• How do I populate a session associative array? I want to do it dynamically with vars that are passed
• All my links have a different PHPSESSID number. Shouldn't it be the same number on every link?
• All my links have a different PHPSESSID number. Shouldn't it be the same number on every link?
• Is it possible to write session data using onclick. if so How ??
• Why would a $_SESSION variable correctly contain the value "admin" and after a refresh change "1"??
• Why would a $_SESSION variable correctly contain the value "admin" and after a refresh change "1"??
• Why would a $_SESSION variable correctly contain the value "admin" and after a refresh change "1"??
• Why would a $_SESSION variable correctly contain the value "admin" and after a refresh change "1"??
• Why would a $_SESSION variable correctly contain the value "admin" and after a refresh change to "1"
• I have make a website with login using SESSION (store in MySQL), but some user can't login.
• how to preserve session variable info from HTTP to HTTPS state transition? They are getting lost.
• 2 frame: left & right. When session_start() at right frame, need session_start at left to get var?
• 2 frame: left & right. When session_start() at right frame, need session_start at left to get var?
• Setting $_SESSION['var'] = "* $variable *"; in an object's function stores session var as "* *"
• PHP4+IIS Session id is change every page .
• why do I get this? Warning: Cannot send session cookie - headers already sent by (output started at
• How after certain time period after user logged in i can redirect to other page automatically
• Why is my Session Variables not getting populated by form variables.
• I work on PHP 4.0 with iis 5 (windows xp-prof.), i try to run a session but i failed.
• How do I handle multiple sessions in same project?
• How to pass session to another location in same domain? ex: xxx.mydomain.com and yyy.mydomain.com
• How do I get PHPSESSID to work with regrex?
• How do I get PHPSESSID to work with mod_rewrite regrexes?
• How can I start a new session in window opened by a window with a session?
• How can I start a new session in window opened by a window with a session?
• How can I start a new session in window opened by a window with a session?
• Where do Session Cookies Go?
• How can I send a message to a user before 5 minutes of Session expiration time?
• How can I send a message to a user before 5 minutes of Session expiration time?
• How can I send a message to a user before 5 minutes of Session expiration time?
• serialize($_SESSION) displays vars and values but $_SESSION['var_name'] returns " for all variables.
• Help. My $_SESSION['??']s seem to disappear in LIVE but not on DEV system. Am using session_start()
• why do I get session_start -> undefined function from php 4.3.4
• how to start a new session in php when we have a onclick with href in html.
• How do I use $_SESSION['....'] to declare an array $bang=array(0=>array(1,2,3), 1=>array(4,5,6))
• Settind Session ID as DIR name
• Can php remember session variables through browser refreshes?
• Cannot save session on windows xp pro
• How to get variables out of an array which is stored into session, I need to get products out?
• Since my provider moved to 4.4.4 my global variables are not passing between programs. Help.
• My links have PHPSESSID appended to them but it uses an "&" symbol not "&". How do I fix it?
• can I save php session in the JSON format? Is wddx format good? its performance?