How To Tell If a Session Is New
Q
How To Tell If a Session Is New? - PHP Script Tips - Understanding and Using Sessions
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A
There is not direct way to tell if a session is new or old. But you can design your site to have a required session value in all sessions. Then you can check the existence of this value in a session to determine if it is a new session by isset($_SESSION['name']).
Let's say you decided to have a required session value called "Status" with two possible values: "Guest" and "Registered". The landing script of your site should look like:
<?php
session_start();
if (!isset($_SESSION['Status'])) {
$_SESSION["Status"] = "Guest";
print("<html><pre>");
print("Welcome to FYICenter.com!\n");
print(" <a href=login.php>Login</a>\n");
print(" <a href=guest_home.php>Stay as a guest</a>\n");
print("</pre></html>\n");
} else {
if ($_SESSION["Status"] == "Guest") {
header( 'Location: http://localhost/guest_home.php');
} else if ($_SESSION["Status"] == "Registered") {
header( 'Location: http://localhost/home.php');
}
}
?>
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