I have a single page site I'm working on that displays the contents of your
current session. Users can clear the contents by clicking a link that
triggers a $PHP_SELF?clear=1 - Before any headers are sent out, the script
checks for $_GET['clear'], and if it's set, it does a session_destroy();.
For some reason though, the contents of the session are STILL displayed
until you do a refresh on the page. However, for some bizarre reason, if I
call session_start() at the very beginning, call session_destroy(); and then
session_start() AGAIN after the destroy, it seems to work like it's supposed
to. Is this a bug, or is it working properly? Also - I'm sure there's a
better method than this - Any suggestions on what that might be? If there
are no better methods well... Are there any downsides to what I'm doing?
Below is a "sample" version of the script, to give you an idea of what I
mean incase my ramblings above didn't make sense. Thanks!.
<?php
session_start(); // Start the session
if (isset($_GET['clear'])) {
session_destroy(); // If they chose to clear the session, then we do
so
}
session_start(); // Start it again; it works for whatever
reason
?>
<html><body>
(some other stuff)
<?
/*
Here I just print out whatever's in the session. Unless session_start is
called
the second time after the destroy, a user will have to click refresh
before the
data appears to be gone
*/
if (isset($_SESSION['states'])) {
foreach ($_SESSION['states'] as $value) {
echo "$value<br/>\n";
}
}
// and lastly, here's our "clear session" link below
?>
<a href="index.php?clear=1">Clear the session</a>
</body></html>
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