how to use a session in php code example

Example 1: php sessions

<?php
  	// Start new or resume existing session.
  	session_start();
	
	// Add values to the session.
	$_SESSION['item_name'] = 'value'; // string
	$_SESSION['item_name'] = 0; // int
	$_SESSION['item_name'] = 0.0; // float

	// Get session values.
	$value = $_SESSION['item_name'];
?>

Example 2: session php

<?php
// start session before any HTML
session_start();

// create some variales in $_SESSION
$_SESSION['name'] = 'myname';
$_SESSION['surname'] = 'mysurname';
$_SESSION['age'] = 24;
?>

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
    <head>
        <meta charset="utf-8" />
        <title>My page</title>
    </head>
    <body>
    <p>
        Hey <?php echo $_SESSION['name']; ?> !<br />
        How are you today ?
    </p>

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