Create Session In the first PHP script, create a PHP session using the "session_start" function. Create the session at the beginning of the script.

Using sessions is one of the most popular methods of authenticating users, whether it be forms authentication in ASP.NET and Java or $_SESSION based in PHP.

As an example, create a script session_start.php and copy the following listing. The associative array in the example script has a session_start(options) function call that sets some configuration ...