Session start, destroy, start, exception issue

[Žilvinas Šaltys]

Hello,

First sorry if it's not the right place to ask about this. In my
defense I tried to google about this but couldn't find any relevant
information.

In PHP it seems perfectly normal to start a session, destroy it, and
then start it again. You can do it as much as you like.

http://php.net/session_destroy

Lots of login/logout code is written like this. On logout session is
destroyed and then started again.

Zend_Session destroy() method throws an exception if:

if (self::$_sessionStarted && self::$_destroyed) {
            require_once 'Zend/Session/Exception.php';
            throw new Zend_Session_Exception('The session was
explicitly destroyed during this request, attempting to re-start is
not allowed.');
        }

To me it seems that Zend_Session _changes_ the way sessions work.

I would like to ask if there is a reason for this? Are there any
workarounds? Btw in my current situation using Zend_Auth is not a
viable option.

Thanks for any answer,
Bye!

[till]

2009/6/29 Žilvinas Šaltys <[hidden email]>:

> Hello,
>
> First sorry if it's not the right place to ask about this. In my
> defense I tried to google about this but couldn't find any relevant
> information.
>
> In PHP it seems perfectly normal to start a session, destroy it, and
> then start it again. You can do it as much as you like.
>
> http://php.net/session_destroy
>
> Lots of login/logout code is written like this. On logout session is
> destroyed and then started again.
>
> Zend_Session destroy() method throws an exception if:
>
> if (self::$_sessionStarted && self::$_destroyed) {
>            require_once 'Zend/Session/Exception.php';
>            throw new Zend_Session_Exception('The session was
> explicitly destroyed during this request, attempting to re-start is
> not allowed.');
>        }
>
> To me it seems that Zend_Session _changes_ the way sessions work.
>
> I would like to ask if there is a reason for this? Are there any
> workarounds? Btw in my current situation using Zend_Auth is not a
> viable option.
>
> Thanks for any answer,
> Bye!
>

Aside from "destroying" the session, what are you trying to do? Maybe
there's another way.

Till