[UPHPU] PHP Session and Comment Question

[Dave Simpson]

Thank you everyone who wrote in and gave advice and help. I've got a better
grasp of what is going on now, and I've even managed to get a few of the
databases organized better and it has started making more sense to me. I'm
going to finish the project up in PHP, but I'm thinking I might also want to
see how I can do the project using Ruby on Rails, as that has been mentioned
to me as a viable alternative that may better allow me to do what I want
more easily.

Thank you again, I look forward to future mailings and hopefully a time when
_I_ can help someone out.

Cheers,
Dave Simpson

On 5/6/06, Walt Haas <haas at xmission.com> wrote:
>
> > My trouble with the login and session propagation is that all the
> tutorials
> > I`ve seen online, I`ve looked at codemonkey and phpfreaks, seem to be
> based
> > on php that is before PHP4 and uses global variables that are
> depreciated,
> > the $HTTP_XXX_VARS variables. I was hoping someone could point me to a
> more
> > up to date tutorial, using the new globals ($_GET, $_POST) and or
> cookies.
>
> There's less to it than meets the eye :-)
>
> At the top of every page code:
>
>   session_start()
>
> When you want information to be available later in the session, store
> it in $_SESSION with a suitable key, then retrieve it with that key
> later.
>
> Getting rid of a session is a little more work, you need to kill the
> cookie with the session id then call:
>
>   session_destroy()
>
> As far as frameworks that simplify sessions goes, you might want to
> look at Trax:
>
>   http://www.phpontrax.com
>
> One advantage of using Trax is that if the documentation is unclear
> you can tell the author about it at the next UPHPU meeting :-)
>
> -- Walt
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