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Session Handling

On the Internet, a SESSION refers to the time a user access a website for. A SESSION OBJECT is something that is stored on the webserver to hold information about the about the user, it could be the username, his preferences or other information. A SESSION OBJECT is created when the user access the site and destroyed either when the user abandons the SESSION or timeouts. A user to website connection is not open continuously. Once a page has been created on the webserver and sent, the webserver starts a countdown which if it has not heard a page request from that user, it closes the session. Session are temporary items, if you want information to be held long after the user has disconnected then you consider Cookies.

Explanation ASP PHP

Open a session session_start();
session_register('Webuser');
 
Storing an item in the session Session("Name") = "Nigel" $_SESSION["Webuser"]="Nigel"
 
Abandon Session Session.Abandon session_destroy();
 


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