PHP

Topic: Sessions

How To Determine If a Session Is New?

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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