(top posted because the subject says it all) "session_register -- Register one or more global variables with the current session " It's pretty much deprecated in favor of the $_SESSION superglobal. It's recommended not to mix the two, and it functioning properly depends on register_globals being enabled. (which is defaulted to off since php 4.2.0). Hit up http://www.php.net/ 's documentation for more on this. cheers, - Martin Norland, Sys Admin / Database / Web Developer, International Outreach x3257 The opinion(s) contained within this email do not necessarily represent those of St. Jude Children's Research Hospital. -----Original Message----- From: jonathan [mailto:news_php@xxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Thursday, September 22, 2005 12:17 PM To: php-db@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: what is the value of session_register. . Is there any values to this function? I'm looking over some code where this is a done a bunch of time and I don't see any value to it. Maybe I'm naive about the internals but... -jonathan -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php