How to create a session array in php

Question

I am just learning php and I just don't understand how to do something that seems should be quite simple.

I have an array with these fields

• date
• income
• county
• state
• count (constant of 1)

I need to create a session array that summarizes the array data - county - state - income - count

I just don't know how to create a new Session array to hold the above data. I have searched and tried but I don't get any closer. I think I need to have an associative array.

Answer 1

I recomend that you take a look at How to create, Access and Destroy PHP session .

As mentioned in the commets above, you may set an your $_SESSION superglobal like:

// Start the session if it is not already started 
if(!session_id()) {
  session_start(); 
}
// Set the session variables 
$_SESSION = [
  'date'   => 'value1', 
  'income' => 'value2', 
  'county' => 'value2', 
  'state'  => 'value2', 
  'count ' => 1, 
  ...
];

You may also set your session like:

// Start the session if it is not already started 
if(!session_id()) {
  session_start(); 
}
// Set the session variables 
$_SESSION['date'] = 'value1';
$_SESSION['income'] = 'value2';
$_SESSION['county'] = 'value2';
$_SESSION['state'] = 'value2';
$_SESSION['count '] = 1;

Hope this helps,