PHP/Cookie Session/Session Variables Create

Create session variable

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

Initiate session and create a few session variables

<?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;
?>