Tracking Variables across Pages during a Session
Now that you know how to start a session and track some variables, how about putting this to some use? There are countless uses for sessions, but the real benefit of sessions is to reduce the amount of work for you and your Web server. Think of a typical site that has registered users. This site may have message boards, feature stories that users can respond to, and various other features that users can choose to enable or disable.
Typically, you'd store these preferences in some sort of database and load the values when the user logs into the site. You need a way to remember these values across each page that the user views. If users don't want to see a Poll feature on one page, then it's safe ...
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