> http://www.php.net/docs.php Boy, *that's* helpful. Good to see we have such a helpful community here. Gives me the idea to make postcards that say "RTFM" and hand them out to anyone who asks me a question at the next chamber of commerce meeting. I've never used ASP, but my sense is that sessions are pretty similar. You start a session by calling session_start() and must use it on every page that requires sessions. Session variables can be accessed via the $_SESSION array. So if you have a variable called $userID that you want available on very page in the session, you just set it's value during login: $_SESSION['userID']=$_POST['userID'] (assuming the info is submitted via post with an input named userID). A common practice is to check the value of a session variable and if it's not set, redirect to a login page, thus: If((_SESSION['logged_in']==1) { //valid login } else { //not logged in, redirect to login form } ...assuming you set $_SESSION['logged_in']=1 during the login process Sessions time out (I think the default is 1440 seconds), so if someone has loaded a page for a while, they will have to re-login. More info about sessions is at http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.session.php There are some security risks with sessions, so make sure you read up on that part of the manual. -Derek ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ---------------------~--> Buy Ink Cartridges or Refill Kits for your HP, Epson, Canon or Lexmark Printer at MyInks.com. Free s/h on orders $50 or more to the US & Canada. http://www.c1tracking.com/l.asp?cid=5511 http://us.click.yahoo.com/mOAaAA/3exGAA/qnsNAA/saFolB/TM ---------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Look here for Free PHP Classes of objects: http://phpclasses.UpperDesign.com/ To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: php-objects-unsubscribe@egroups.com Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
