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Re: session question [message #177680 is a reply to message #177665]

Fri, 13 April 2012 09:18

Captain Paralytic
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On Apr 12, 5:43 pm, William Gill <nore...@domain.invalid> wrote:
> I have a site with an input form that recursively calls itself via
> action="<?php echo $_SERVER['PHP_SELF']; ?>", and a couple links with
> url encoded data that indicate simple selections w/o using a form. It
> uses different include('file'); statements based on the progress and/or
> choices previously made, and it works fine, but is a little complicated
> to track "state" when troubleshooting, updating, or changing.
>
> I am thinking of using a session approach which would be simpler to
> follow, but have never used sessions on a page that is recursively called..
>
> First since session_start() would be called every iteration, that will
> cause an error unless I encapsulate it in an if loop to see if the
> session already exists. Is this the preferred method?
>
> Second, when the user is finished and receives an acknowledgement I plan
> to call a session_unset() to clear things up so that if they want to do
> it again, they are beginning with a clean slate. Again, is this the
> preferred method?

Your form is not recursive. When it is displayed the php script is
completed. The next time it is submitted it is treated as a new
process.

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		session question By: William Gill on Thu, 12 April 2012 16:43
		Re: session question By: Scott Johnson on Thu, 12 April 2012 16:56
		Re: session question By: M. Strobel on Thu, 12 April 2012 17:43
		Re: session question By: M. Strobel on Thu, 12 April 2012 17:59
		Re: session question By: Captain Paralytic on Fri, 13 April 2012 09:18
		Re: session question By: Denis McMahon on Fri, 13 April 2012 13:27
		Re: session question By: William Gill on Fri, 13 April 2012 17:51
		Re: session question By: Jerry Stuckle on Fri, 13 April 2012 19:54
		Re: session question By: William Gill on Fri, 20 April 2012 06:40
		Re: session question By: M. Strobel on Fri, 20 April 2012 08:55
		Re: session question By: Erwin Moller on Fri, 20 April 2012 09:25
		Re: session question By: Jerry Stuckle on Fri, 20 April 2012 12:11
		Re: session question By: William Gill on Fri, 20 April 2012 14:59
		Re: session question By: William Gill on Fri, 20 April 2012 15:32
		Re: session question By: Michael Fesser on Fri, 20 April 2012 15:50
		Re: session question By: William Gill on Fri, 20 April 2012 16:04
		Re: session question By: Tim Streater on Fri, 20 April 2012 17:17
		Re: session question By: M. Strobel on Fri, 20 April 2012 18:08
		Re: session question By: Tim Streater on Fri, 20 April 2012 19:36
		Re: session question By: William Gill on Sat, 21 April 2012 22:13
		Re: session question By: Jerry Stuckle on Fri, 20 April 2012 18:22
		Re: session question By: William Gill on Fri, 20 April 2012 19:04
		Re: session question By: The Natural Philosoph on Fri, 20 April 2012 21:09
		Re: session question By: Michael Fesser on Fri, 20 April 2012 19:13
		Re: session question By: Jerry Stuckle on Fri, 20 April 2012 19:45
		Re: session question By: Tim Streater on Fri, 20 April 2012 22:11
		Re: session question By: The Natural Philosoph on Fri, 20 April 2012 22:23
		Re: session question By: Tim Streater on Sat, 21 April 2012 12:14
		Re: session question By: Jerry Stuckle on Fri, 20 April 2012 22:45
		Re: session question By: Michael Fesser on Fri, 20 April 2012 23:24
		Re: session question By: The Natural Philosoph on Sat, 21 April 2012 00:28

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