On Tue, 19 Jan 2010 16:45:37 +0530, kranthi...@gmail.com (kranthi) wrote:

>> When I first started using sessions, I was alarmed to read a very similar 
>> statement about
>> sessions, but I soon found that if I started my program with the statement
>> "session_start();" I could then set up, access, modify or clear any session 
>> variable at
>> any time in my program. This is enormously useful, as I can put the session 
>> handling at
>> any convenient point in my program, and can precede them with diagnostics if 
>> I need to.
>
>are you looking for ob_* functions ?

Yes, thank you; I was!

I read this, and said "what the hell are they?", before I tried Bruno's 
setcookie() again,
and verified it didn't work. Then I noticed a textbook buried on my desk opened 
to the
section on cookies, saw "output buffering", and realised what you were talking 
about. And,
yes, they do seem to let me do what I want.

Unfortunately they don't do one thing I would have liked them to, which is to 
enable me to
see diagnostics buried in CSS code. The only way to discover these is to use 
the Explorer
'View source' option, and examine the HTML very carefully. While I was fiddling 
with the
setcookie suggestion some diagnostics went missing (because I was running the 
wrong
version), and when I looked at the HTML I found some error messages relating to 
an
undefined variable in the CSS, which I fear have been there for a long time.


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