Sessions & Cookies...

[ankurraheja]

I have a line of code $_SESSION['name']=$name

 

- What does PHP do when it stores the $name in the session? What I see in the cookie is only a string of random characters...

 

- Can I read the cookie and tell what is stored in it or can I use PERL or Java to read this cookie and get the actual value of $name ?

 

- Is there some kind of encoding or encryption used and how can it be reversed, without using PHP ?

[The Bat]

The random characters in the session is the encrypted value of it. To display the un-encrypted value, just do

<?php
echo $_SESSION['name'];
?>

So if $name was, for instance, 'Andrew', then the above code would display 'Andrew'.