Reading Session Variables in PHP

This page shows an example of how to read session variables in PHP. The following is the value of the session variable we created on this page, called "test_variable".

In order to be able to use session variables, we need to tell PHP that we want to use sessions on this page. To do this, we call the session_start() built-in function at the top of the script. We read the session variable called "test_variable" by using the $_SESSION['test_variable'] variable in PHP.

The following is the output from the command echo $_SESSION['test_variable'];