PHP/Cookie Session/Session Variables Create

Create session variable

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<?php

  session_start();
  $_SESSION["username"] = "Joe";
  echo "Your username is ".$_SESSION["username"].".";

?>

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Initiate session and create a few session variables

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<?php

  // Initiate session and create a few session variables
  session_start();
  // Set the variables. These could be set via an HTML form, for example.
  $_SESSION["username"] = "joe";
  $_SESSION["loggedon"] = date("M d Y H:i:s");
  // Encode all session data into a single string and return the result
  $sessionVars = session_encode();
  echo $sessionVars;

?>

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