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Re: session question [message #177691 is a reply to message #177686] Fri, 13 April 2012 17:51 Go to previous messageGo to previous message
William Gill is currently offline  William Gill
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On 4/13/2012 9:27 AM, Denis McMahon wrote:
> Nope. Recursive is the wrong term to use here. It calls itself, yes, but
> does not do so in a truly recursive manner.
>
>> I am thinking of using a session approach which would be simpler to
>> follow, but have never used sessions on a page that is recursively
>> called.
>
> This is not recursive calling. In recursive calling, a function calls
> itself from within itself.
>
> In a web page that includes a link back to itself, it has completed all
> processing before it is called again.
>
> Just include a single call to session_start() at the start of the main php
> script file, and don't call it on the included php script files.

Though I agree with your definition of recursive calling of a function,
I'm not sure the term recursive is limited to functions. However maybe
repetitively would have been a better choice.

To clear up some things for some of the other respondents, the page gets
called several ways.

1) The initial GET domain/page.php which includes() an intro and list of
links.

2) A second GET from one of the links:
<a href="<?php echo $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'] ?>?whoDoYouWantToContact=John">
which then includes() the HTML form.

3) A POST from the form:
<form action="<?php echo $_SERVER['PHP_SELF']; ?>" method="post" >
which then includes() a process the form script and an acknowledgement
that the data was received.

Denis, my testing confirms that you are correct, placing the
session_start() on the core page does not produce errors on subsequent
GETS or POSTS. Which makes logical sense, but seemed to conflict with
the manual. Thanks, helping clear that up.
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