How Do Different Sessions Work? Multiple Sessions
I use a messageboard which uses sessions.
I have a login script which uses sessions.
I have a charting app which uses sessions.
How does PHP handle this? Does it create three different sessions or is everything handled by the one session file? In other words, is it working like magic and I don't need to worry about it.
What I'm confused with is that at the start of the login script there is a start_session() and other session related stuff. On logout, the session is destroyed.
Now does this affect the start_session() of the other scripts?
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